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Very good looking site at myturf designed as a means of coordinating volunteer effort in teh city.  I’ll be interested to see how/if it works.

Update on ranger Leyian who was shot: In total they gave him 6 pints of blood, and are keeping him under observation in case of infections.
That’s the latest tweet from the Mara Triangle on twitter and it illustrates some simple principles of good use of social media for charities and non for profit organisations.

The twitter [...]

Students at Frankley High have returned to their experiment with podcasting which I was helping to support last year. It’s taken a while to get back but we’re hoping to create a learning group where those who worked with us last year begin to show the teachers how to use the kit.

We also went [...]

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This Youtube channel is my idea of good. A series of cleanly made but short (typically 3 mins) videos on personal experience of discrimination and reflections on human rights. The film above is from Michael Etkind, who survived a Nazi concentration camp. [...]

This is what Dave Harte wrote on the wall as he registered to run this years London Marathon.  He would welcome sponsorship.
Stef is hoping to win a webby.  As he put it on twitter:

Vote “Webby!” for First Light Movies in the Film & Video -> Student category http://pv.webbyawards.com/b…
about 1 hour ago [...]

For at least 3 years now Dave Harte from Digital Central has been supporting the digital media industry in Brum. Now it’s time to return the favour.

Dave is running the London Marathon next week. He’s been long on training but short on fundraising. Last year he raised £495 for St Mary’s Hospice [...]

Really interesting piece from Tony Hirst at the OU here which explores potential futures of learning. Among four options illustrated above two stuck out for me:
The ‘Google university’ differs from the easyUniversity in terms of student autonomy. The Google university envisions a world of rich materials, which students search for themselves. Far from being pre-packaged, [...]

Simon has just started the first official live blog of a UK summit here. Now press accredit a bunch of other bloggers (if you haven’t already).