Let me start by saying that I am Bristolian born and bred, and have spent most of my life in this wonderful city. I am enormously proud of my home town and want to see it be recognised for all of the great things that are happening in it. However the performance of our state schools is of great concern, and a long-running problem.
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After a long silence Maxis (of The Sims fame) have at last announced a release date for Spore.
Spore has been gestating for several years, Will Wright the creator first talked publicly about at the Game Developers Conference in 2005. You can watch a 35min video of his talk on YouTube, below.
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There’s an interesting new project from the fabulous Creative Commons folk.
ccLearn is a division of Creative Commons which is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning and open educational resources (OER). Our mission is to minimize barriers to sharing and reuse of educational materials — legal barriers, technical barriers, and social barriers.
Although a US-based project, they do say: This is an international project, and we will be working with open educational sites and resources from around the world.
They are part of the wider Open Educational resources Initiative, which also seems to include the Open University’s OpenLearn initiative.