Blog the World Cup (BTWC) was a project that took place during the football World Cup in the summer of 2010. John Sutton’s idea was of a collaborative World Cup site with schools ‘adopting’ a competing nation and developing a blog around that country’s performance in the tournament, as well as other aspects such as its geography, culture and sporting heritage. The World Cup would indeed present a great opportunity for teachers and learners to explore and the blogging medium in a purposeful and engaging context. I recorded my initial post-tournament reflections shortly after the...

Working within the restrictive confines of my particular brand of County Council has proved energy- and morale-sapping for a whole number of interesting reasons that are best left until my redundancy package is finalised. Suffice to say… in the good times, the council sails a course determined by the temporary availability of this or that funding stream with little vision as to a corporate destination beyond the short or medium term projects horizon. When the economic climate takes a turn for the worse the corporate supertanker lurches inexorably towards the rocks with few options other than...