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Philip Larkin was the Librarian at the University of Hull and while I was a student there, I think I actually saw him once, striding imperiously through the Brynmor Jones Library. He was also a famous poet who died in 1985 and the City of Hull is celebrating the 25th anniversary of his death with a number of special events. One of the more bizarre events is Larkin with Toads, the temporary invasion of 40 giant fibre-glass toads, a public art installation which celebrates Larkin’s poems of working life ‘Toads’ and ‘Toads Revisited’ (See Wikipedia article)....

Personal success but failure for mobile technology! 8.27 (BST 7.27 GMT): On the Bus at Bracelet Bay, Mumbles. First trip report filed with Audioboo.fm: http://boos.audioboo.fm/swf/fullsize_player.swf #### Stage One: Rhossilli to Port Eynon, 7 Miles 09.22: Rhossilli, at the start of the walk, I filed my second report filed on AudioBoo.fm. There was no reception for quite a while! http://boos.audioboo.fm/swf/fullsize_player.swf The first stage of the walk, the coastal path between Rhossilli and Port Eynon is a distance of seven miles....

Report from Times Higher which covers recent announcements of Marc Prensky, due to speak in Bournemouth University next week, and Martin Hall, invited speaker at the ALT-C Conference this week. My summary … the “nouns are changing but the verbs remain the same”. See this Amp at http://bit.ly/d3hIF3

The 17th annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology ALT-C 2010 has just ended. And though I did not attend, I was fairly fully engaged with the keynote and invited sessions that were streamed via CrowdVine in Elluminate and will be made available on the ALT-C channel on YouTube. Reflection starts now and I thought that I would use my newest e-learning gadget, my [LiveScribe Echo](http://www.livescribe.com/uk/) pen, and trial copy of [MyScript for LiveScribe](http://www....

Geek heaven … ShowOff — a keynote/powerpoint alternative that’s a Sinatra web app with slide markup in Markdown and special effects in JavaScript. I’ve got to try this! From Scott Chacon, GitHubber and author of Pro Git. Mentioned during an interview on InfoQ. See this Amp at [http://bit.ly/aTNldj](http://bit.ly/aTNldj)