Standing on my head to read

Adventures in Learning and Reading.

I wanna tell you a story…

Future Learn is live, though still in Beta. I am studying the first course to be run and have some thoughts about the presentation. I want to encourage more people to take up this free learning opportunity. I tested the water for you and you should come on in, it’s fine.

Branded

  I was thinking this morning that my first Future Learn course is looming and that I really should knuckle down, get my act together, clear the decks, and generally deploy for real as many over-used turns of phrase as I can. Then I got to wishing that something was happening. Some kind of indication …

That was… great?

Having finally viewed Citizen Kane, I am left wondering what it is about that film that supposedly made it so great? Only recently toppled from #1 on many lists of the top 100 films, it clearly had legs. I just could not see them. Well, anyway, it’s a tick from the list.   It’s actually …

Mornings and going back for more

I have added Muslims in Britain: Changes and Challenges to my Future Learn study plans. I realised that by the time that it starts I shall have only the one course running, the Higgs Boson one, and that it only takes 2 hours a week. Plenty of room then for some comparative religion study. Muslims in …

I may be a teensy bit of a geek, so what of it?

It may be time to call a halt on the Great App Install-fest but before I cease to witter on the subject I thought I might just remark on yesterday’s two discoveries. The first app of note is actually a  paid one, at a whopping £1.65. Smart Tools Prepare for your jaw to drop (mine …