Holiday bloggy sluggishness. But wait! something… mathematical?

Apologies for my rare postings of late  to those who still take an occasional peek into this blog  - although I doubt the existence of these people very much because there has been an unmistakable lapse in eventful posting. This is due mainly to school holidays and family things, not all pleasant. Nevertheless, here I am, [...]

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How Delicious it was

The words from Big yellow taxi come to mind Don’t it always seem to go That you don’t know what you’ve got Till it’s gone That’s how it’s suddenly hit me with the news about Yahoo terminating the popular social bookmarking  site, Delicious. I haven’t felt this disappointed since Ning stopped free service. Delicious was [...]

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The end of the year is nigh

Nigh? What kind of language do I think I’m speaking? I blame end of year debilitating virus for that. Anyway…. …it’s a strange time of the year when you jump off the spinning School Wheel and onto the Christmas Shopping and Everything Else Wheel. I love this time of year in Edublogland when the Edublog Award [...]

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Edublog winners – looking in from the outside

The 2010 Edublog Awards have raised some excitement as well as some good natured jabbing on Twitter. I’m watching the whole spectacle from the outside and find it very entertaining. Meanwhile, I think my Summer holidays will be sucked up by frantic attempts to save nominated people and their blogs/wikis/whatever to my Google Reader, all [...]

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My nominations for Edublogs Awards 2010

In the nick of time, my nominations for the Edublogs Awards 2010 are: Best individual blog – Jenny Luca – Lucacept. Jenny Luca has been posting regularly through rain, sleet and snow. Her enormous following can be sure that she finds the latest information and news and opens up discussion for pertinent and controversial educational [...]

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