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Designing the Course

Me Excavating at Portus Hello all, my name is Peter Wheeler and I’m one of the designers on #UosFLPortus. I have the great job of helping to put the entire MOOC together. Whilst you won’t see me on camera – although I do have two cameos – I have been behind the scenes putting together each video, text and other additional content in preparation for the launch. Continue reading →

Burying the Digital

Clay tablet (wikipedia) I am at Museums and the Web this week in Baltimore. I was sat next to @trinkermedia and we were talking enthusiastically about  the physical, tangible and the interactive digital (as usual). Over the last few years we have been digitising very large collections of cuneiform tablets and are mid way through developing an open source Reflectance Transformation Imaging web renderer that will allow interaction with these on mobile devices and desktops. Continue reading →

Vikings!

I went to see the Vikings exhibition at the British Museum last weekend. Having very much enjoyed Life and Death in Pompeii and Herculaneum last year, I had high hopes for this visit. I was disappointed. First of all, I don’t like the space. The Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery is at the back of the Great Court, and feels like a long narrow shape, that isn’t helped by the partitioning in the introductory section. Continue reading →

Plenary session by David Graddol at IATEFL conference

David Graddol, Director of the English Company (UK) Ltd, gave the IATEFL conference plenary session yesterday, in which he examined the economic benefits that English brings. In his session, Graddol critically explored the role English now plays in relation to the economy and the implications of this for educational policy. To watch the recorded presentation in full, visit the IATEFL website. Continue reading →

Chineasy: A new method for learning Chinese

The Independent has reported on a new image-led dictionary called ‘Chineasy’ that has recently been launched by Taiwanese entrepreneur ShaoLan Hsueh. Chineasy is aimed at learners of all ages and uses a building-block principle, which helps learners become familiar with the base characters using fun, eye-catching designs and then combine them to create more complex words and simple phrases. To read more about Chineasy, visit the Independent website. Continue reading →

Call for papers – Refugees and Migrants: Unaccompanied Children in Britain 1914-2014

Against the backdrop of intense contemporary debate on immigration, the University of Southampton’s Parkes Institute and the Centre for German-Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex are pleased to announce an interdisciplinary and international conference on unaccompanied child migration both in and out of the UK over the past century. Continue reading →