A Web for Learning in an IT-free space

The kids' school asked me to construct a site and online service to help them to use their remarkable GREENSPACE better. Greenspace (current holding site here) is an unused portion of a cemetery behind the school, which a group of parents has taken over and reclaimed as outdoor classroom. Now, we want to get the kids using it on a regular basis. Some schools teach up to 80% of lessons outdoors. We'll start modest.

The job of the web is to sow inspirations online that can be taken offline by the teachers into the Greenspace.

So: video, searchable resources, community and support....

I'd wondered about a googlesite simply because it's so simple to get every person in the school and community adding stuff to it. But the search is poor so you have to construct an elaborate hierachy of content to get navigation to the right pages. Sure, that conflicts with an anarchic site. But the lack of a webmaster authority brings benefits too.

Maybe it's not a site but a wiki, anyway ?

This video by Michael Welsch at digital anthropology got me thinking that perhaps it doesnt' matter so long as the tagging and bookmarking are powerful...

Colours of the Past

This kodachrome from summer 1978 came to me from the friend third on the left. The visit of our French Exchange students, and another family (Davis) to our home in Beeston, Nottingham. The table, made of sicilian tiles, is still my dinner table in London. The colours have such a 70s emotion ! I still have the silver teapot (bottom centreleft) and indeed it makes my tea most mornings.