Jeremy Price hits the nail on the head. To critique something, when done without malicious intent, is a call for an extended dialogue; it seems like that can only help bring about that open exchange of ideas in order to better the world at large.

Congratulations to all the Edublog Award winners

Chris Ashley summed up Lloyd’s edublogging back in 2001. If each of us is a little blog disk jockey daily programming our own content for those who come across it to read, then Lloyd is the Master DJ, spinning and scratching several diverse tables at once, all the while encouraging others to spin, pointing to the spinning, finding threads among the spinning many, spinning those spins into his own to reflect back out to the community and be used as new riffs. For free. Because it’s a good thing to do. That’s radical. Quiet, unassuming, all action. Take a trip outside of the...

Hey Lloyd! Whether or not I was blogging myself, I always read your stuff – habitual reading if you like Thanks for your encouraging words on your weblog and your comments over here. It was a number of years ago in a brief online chat with you that you talked about looking for the gems in students’ habitual writing. In the years following I must have used the picture hundreds of times to alleviate the fears of teachers who worry that children might make mistakes and not produce consistent brilliance if they write on blogs I’m currently putting together some of highlights...

Nick Webster’s description of the Primary School teacher over at the Training and Development Agency for Schools site. Primary teachers need to be adaptable, creative and, above all, enthusiastic. Whatever you are teaching, you need to unlock your own interest in it and then fire up your pupils’ imaginations so that they really want to learn.

Gareth Davies, a friend of mine from Advisory Matters has pointed me to Steve Woolgar’s book Virtual Society? – technology, cyberbole, reality and his ‘Five Rules of Virtuality’. These are: Current rate of straightforward rapid expansion may not continue. New technologies tend to supplement rather than substitute for existing practices and forms of organisation The more virtual the more real! Fears and risks associated with new technologies are unevenly socially distributed Impact of new technologies depends crucially on their local social context Gareth offers us Woolgar’s...