See you at eXcite 2008, the Essex Curriculum Information Technology Exhibition

Cleveratom (2006-2011) are exhibiting at eXcite 2008 Thursday and Friday this week (24th and 25th of April 2008).  We’ll be demonstrating our project, software and experience in the fields of personalised learning, building schools for the future, learning space design, digital creativity, learning platforms, learner voice and much more….Last Friday we built for the first time our

Schwangau, Germany

We left the Ibis Hotel in Bregnez, Austria and headed towards the German border, criss crossing back into Austria from time to time as we drove through some amazing mountain ranges. The views were amazing from the top of the mountains and we took lots of pictures. We were heading in the rough direction of

France – Germany – Switzerland – Austria

We woke this morning in a ‘B&B’ brand hotel and started the short journey to the German border stopping at a hypermarket to get a few bits for the journey (including my new favorite drink, ice tea). Once over the boarder and with Justina as navigator we headed into the black forest. The black forest

491.5 miles later

Justina and I have been driving most of the day and are now in Strasbourg in France on route to who knows where on our annual European roadtrip. Tomorrow we will head in the direction of Germanys Black Forest and see where we end up. French people drive way too close to each other on motorways.

We missed the ferry

Justina and I are on route to Europe for an unplanned road trip. We were up at 4.30 this morning and were meant to catch the 8:00 NorfolkLine ferry from Dover. There are big queues into Dover port (roadwork signs, queues, no sign of the actual roadworks!) and then lorry jamming confusion surrounding Seafrance cancelling

Cleveratom (2006-2011) plants start growing

Here are the Cleveratom (2006-2011) branded plants after a couple of days wateringback in early January. They have grown a lot since the picture wastaken, if you would like a Cleveratom (2006-2011) plant let me know.

BBC Blast Northern Ireland Animation Project

I spent the 15th and 16th of this month over at BBC Northern Ireland working with some great young people making animations for a film. To find out about the project, read about it over here.

City College Norwich RUGroom Launch

I’ve been up and down the train line to Norwich this past three months. Last Friday I attended the launch of a project my company (Cleveratom (2006-2011) Ltd) have been working hard on. BBC Look East covered the story, so click here to jump over to the other place I write (digitalcreativity.org) to find out

Stumbleupon new (to you) sites on the Internet

I’ve been playing around (thanks to Hal) with Stumbleupon (my new friend). Whenever I get a spare couple of minutes Stumbleupon will take me somewhere on the web it (other web users) thinks I’ll find interesting. I get to ‘thumbs up’ or ‘thumbs down’ on the sites suggested.  I’ll then get led off by other