10 July 2008
So I typed Jiva into the all knowing Google and lo and behold there was a Wikipedia entry so I thought I would have a look.
Apparently Jiva in Hinduism and Jainism is a ‘living being’. Now that makes us ‘Living Being Technology’ which given our focus on the concept of People Search with Beanbag and [...]
9 July 2008
As well as our shiny new website there are a couple of new faces at Jiva this week.
Theo joins us from web hosting company Krystal as a developer and apart from briefly killing the wifi on his second day is settling in and itching to get his hands dirty. He is a graduate of Southampton [...]
9 July 2008
As you can see we have given the Jiva website an extreme makeover and very happy we are with it to! The site continues to run on the wonderful Wordpress but thanks to the stirling efforts of Chris Berridge and Juan Kennaugh it now has a wonderful new design that fits better with [...]
12 May 2008
“Cut, take two and…. Action”
It was a freezing February morning when I filmed Jennifer Mactaggart presenting her first ever video-tutorial. Just two weeks previously we’d decided to pool her talents as a tutor and mine as a film-maker to create educational videos for GCSE students. So here we now were on Bristol’s floating harbour, filming [...]
30 April 2008
I’m currently reading Here Comes Everybody: the power of organizing without organizations by Clay Shirky, which is a cracking good read. There is one passage early in the book which really resonates with what we are trying to do with Beanbag.
From Sharing to Cooperation to Collective Action For the last hundred years the big organizational [...]
14 March 2008
The DCSF campaign to get teachers working outside of the classroom has been boosted this week with the launch of the Teaching Outside of the Classroom website. The aim is for trainee teachers to go on placements during their training at non-school educational sites, such as adventure centres and museums. The manifesto for this was [...]
14 February 2008
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 [...]
12 February 2008
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.
5 February 2008
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, [...]
30 January 2008
The Doing our homework post on the Lat Long Blog from the Google Earth and Maps team highlights some new YouTube video tutorials that offer up basic tricks for using Google Earth and can serve as inspiration for lesson plans.