Sam, The Spaceship and Me

For the past few days I have been playing games, or one game to be precise, to explore some of the possibilities for using it in the context of improving literacy in the classroom. Samorost is a free online adventure/puzzle game created by Jakub Dvorsky while he was a student at the Academy of Arts, Architecture [...]

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Brave New World

I would guess this is by far the most significant post I have written since I started the blog, as today I announce to the world that I will be leaving Learning and Teaching Scotland in early July and stepping out into the world on my own as an independent learning consultant. Finally, I will actually be The Literacy [...]

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Mini-Mini Epic on Twitter

I read a message on Twitter the other day asking whether anyone had examples of using Twitter to teach English. I’m not aware of such a thing but it did get me thinking. Let me explain. Twitter is a social networking service which allows friends, co-workers, like-minded people to stay connected in real time by posting regular [...]

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The Sun Was Shinning through the Dinning Hall Window

A fixassion with the rools of spelling is plasing two big a burden on our young peepil and hoalding bak there progress. Who says so? None other than John Wells, Emeritus Professor of Phonetics at University College London and president of the Spelling Society (read the article at Times Online). It’s enough to have Lynne [...]

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