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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...

I didn’t mean to write a poem today. When I fired up Twitter this morning I noticed that Leon Cych had already been out and about taking photos in the snow. Somewhat intrigued, I took a look at his photos and left a quick comment.  They would have made good material for writing a topical poem about snow with my students. When Leon fired me a tweet with a link to a poem, ‘Handwriting Exercise’,  he had written about the snow 30 years ago, the material and surrounding backstory became excellent inspiration for writing a poem. If one of my schools had been open and visiting Silverstone...

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[kml_flashembed movie="http://youtube.com/v/uoyrTkeaQi0" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] The final dissemination workshop of the ECML Blogs project is under way! Here are the first photos from the intro.