Reasons to be a blogger: 1, 2, 3 …
Reasons to be a blogger: 1, 2, 3 …
Dramatisation of Samuel Pepys’s diaries for BBC Radio 4. Is this an invitation to start a diary of your own?
Think about your own learning – the resources and tools you use, where and when it takes place. Early mornings from 4.00am, weekends, mornings only ’til 10.00 or so. Occasionally some reading in the evening. But vicariously too, in a…
From ‘The Spooky Art’ ‘Over the years, I’ve found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. It’s a simple rule If you tell yourself you are going to be at…
It isn’t for lack of overwhelming, immersive and engaging content online, especially ‘how to’ movies and ‘clips’ in YouTube, its how you as an individual copes with this inexhaustible choice. Armed with an 3G tablet and sim card will we…
If your school or college were a car, what kind of car would it be?
In the Guardian Review, March 2003, William Boyd discussed the journal ‘There are many sort of journal: journals written with both eyes fixed firmly on posterity and other that were designed never to be read by anyone but the writer.…
A diary is many things ‘Maketh up a quote at ye beginning of thy book; it will make people think thou art clever.’ Christopher Marlowe ‘The Obscure Tragedie’ Act II, Scene ii. The following comes from a seminal book on…
