Short one today, just had root canal work :(.  Anyway, whilst drifting into a codine induced snooze I noted the following link.  I've heard lots of people talking about voicethread, but I've been quite sceptical about how it could work.  Of course, it's banned in the LEA WAN, but I think I might ask for it to be unblocked, after seeing the amazing application here:

Right, I've been meaning to post on this for ages. Jane Shuyska (at the beginning of the holidays, sorry I didn't read it before!) sent me a link to some research carried out by Sara Hennessy, Rosemary Deaney and Kenneth Ruthven of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education.

Last thursday Jane and I ran a third lesson with my year 9 'Zeldin' class.  This was a second go at using the wiki to study the links between events and factors behind the development of surgery in the 19th and 20th Centuries.