From the monthly archives:
I love this video. I’ve watched it hundreds of times trying to work out what makes it special, even if only in that Sesame Street/supplementary education way.
But whatever the secret ingredient is I’m sure there are all sorts of keys to good learning here. Take a simple idea, use a familiar song, change the words and you end [...]
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Sam and I have been out on the road for the last couple of days in the freezing cold North East, experiencing legendary Geordie hospitality, doing a lot of listening and just a tiny smidgeon of talking (!).
We’ve been visiting organisations that aren’t yet members of the Learning Pool Club. Yes, dear reader, believe it [...]
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Maeve: Hey Ben, I like the new tattoos on the inside of your wrists. What do they say?
Ben: On this wrist it says “Cymru” and on this one is says “Am byth”
Maeve: What does that mean?
Ben: Wales forever
Maeve: What, as opposed to for 20 minutes?
Ben: sigh
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Read this blog by Donald Clark which talks about where he got the idea for Learning Pool from.
Interesting stuff to hear about our humble beginnings on the back of an airplane sick bag.
Read how Donald made the case for the IDeA to create Learning Pool and why the reasons for Learning Pool’s existence are just as important today, if not [...]
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The James Bond classic ‘The World is not Enough’ was on TV again recently.
Now I’m not a massive fan of the three digit daredevil but I do like the sequence where Pierce Brosnan and Robbie Coltrane’s characters are on a wooden platform in the middle of the Caspian Sea.
A helicopter with a rotating saw is swooping down and [...]
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One of our favourite e-learning gurus, Mr Donald Clark, praises Learning Pool in his latest blog on why he believes the web is the real pedagogic engine.
I quote “I love the excellent Learning Pool, where users create content then willingly share it with others. In the public sector, this should be the norm.” We agree.
Calling the [...]
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“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times” was how Charles Dickens opened ‘A Tale Of Two Cities’ and he could easily have been talking about the e-learning industry during the current credit crunch.
All around belts are being tightened as prices rise, long established shops close and employment figures fall. And [...]
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As a team that prides ourselves on being there for our customers at all times we thought long and hard, in the run up to the Christmas break, about what cover we would provide whilst the office was closed.
We decided that we would be on call throughout the festive season and have all calls diverted [...]
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