October | 2007 | mistersnappy

mistersnappy

intermittent since 2001

What can Dr Kawashima teach us? Notes from a talk

I’m currently sitting at a talk at BAFTA about an experiment in scottish schools using Dr Kawashimas Brain Training for the Nintentdo DS to teach kids. They refer to the teachers as digital immigrants and the students as digital natives. It seems to me that the immigrants will always have trouble teaching native, but in…

Echo

In the light of last weeks news about the potential sale of BBC Television Centre in London, I thought I’d post a clip by Jon Jacobs that echos my feeling about working at White City and for the BBC. [youtube=http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-VjOi4kavNQ] Join the Facebook group opposing the sale of TVC and sign the petition too.

In Rainbows

You may be about to shout me down and accuse me of many things, but I just downloaded the new Radiohead album and paid nothing. ‘Why did you do that?’ You may say… well here is my reasoning. There was a lot of hype around Radiohead and their chosen method of distribution for their album ‘In…