http://digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk Just another eThink.org.uk weblog Tue, 15 Dec 2009 00:23:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en OK, here is my response to yesterday's phenomenal influx of recemmendations to my request for #filmsiwonthaveheardof. Here are my 10 favourite #filmsithinkyouwonthaveheardof: Capturing the Friedmans Casshern Eat the Peach Music of Chance Ping Pong Pocket Money Popi Rage Scandal Static http://digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk/2009/12/15/filmsithinkyouwonthaveheardof/ After reading a great Tweet by @jeffman in which he mentioned the Spaghetti Westerns he was going to watch this week - none of which I'd ever heard of (shame on me), I decided to pose the  following question and see what response I got through crowdsourcing: "Can any of my ... http://digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk/2009/12/13/filmsiwonthaveheardof/ Around this time last year Ian Usher, Leon Cych, Tom Barrett and I sat down (virtually speaking) and discussed how we were going to support Stephen Heppell in organising TeachMeet BETT and, with the power of the community behind it, we now know how successful that was. In my opinion ... http://digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk/2009/10/22/teachers-curate-bett-2010-%e2%80%93-my-proposal/ Firstly I want to thank @suw for stimulating so many of us to write a blog post on this day in honour of Ada Lovelace, its been a privilege to take part in this momentous Ada Lovelace Day and to fulfill my pledge. Interestingly, as I read some of the other posts ... http://digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk/2009/03/24/acknowledging-women-in-ict-on-ada-lovelace-day/ Welcome to eThink.org.uk. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging! http://digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk/2009/02/13/hello-world/ "Fail Snail" by @ikepigott  (thanks @motownmutt for the tip off) Apart from yesterday's Bob Dylan song which I kind of searched for, all the others I've blogged about so far have randomly popped up in my iTunes playlist - and spookily  have had an uncanny connection to the theme of each main blog post.  Today's, 'You're ... http://digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk/2009/01/08/youre-gonna-make-me-lonesome-when-you-go-twitter/  Today's Bob Dylan song is 'Floater (too much to ask)' the only one of his I could find that had the word 'inspire' in it - which I selected  so as to be in keeping with the theme of this post.  It's taken from his 2001 album 'Love and Theft' and is him ... http://digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk/2009/01/07/coming-to-your-internet-tv-station-soon/ Just a brief post today to praise Twitter from the rooftops for the way in which one can use it to seek solutions to your problems.  I used a couple of Tweets to plead for fincial support in the form of sponsorship for the TeachMeet and was deluged with offers ... http://digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk/2009/01/06/got-a-problem-twitter-can-help/  In just over a week the BETT Show starts in the hallowed halls of Olympia.  This is the biggest educational 'trade' show in Europe.  Despite many cynical views of the BETT Show as an event (many people see it as becoming less essential every year), I have fond memories of ... http://digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk/2009/01/05/teachmeetbett-2009/ Each Sunday I'm going to look  at either a Bob Dylan track sung in collaboration or by someone else, or  a song by another artists that was inspired by Bob Dylan. Today I chose 'Ain't no more cane' which is a traditional prison song of the American South that he sang with The Band.  ... http://digitalmaverick.ethink.org.uk/2009/01/04/aint-no-more-cane/