The BBC encourages the sharing of this video from Dame Shirley Bassey’s recent appearance on the electric Proms. So here it is, with the “Girl from Tiger Bay” (which Shirley is of course) composed by James Dean Bradfield, who’s playing guitar. It’s a good song! Enjoy! http://www.bbc.co.uk/emp/external/player.swf
Clive on Learning: E-Learning Debate 2009 as mentioned by Jane Hart, a recent debate at the Oxford Union “This house believes that the e-learning of today is essential for the important skills of tomorrow.” has been summarized by Clive Shepherd. The debate (including video clips of the speakers is here: www.epic.co.uk/elearningdebate and there’s a tweet feed here. Which side would you be on?
http://youtube.com/v/vmaUW86RqbY Giving lectures on code is pretty tedious for both students and staff and it occured to me that more interactivity is required. So I wondered if I could liven up my JavaScript lectures by using Firebug’s JavaScript console. As you can see from this quick “proof of concept” video that I [made with Screenr](http://screenr.com/juH), it might just work (and will require little extra effort on my part). I’ll blog again about how it went!...
Today I attended a pleasant hour at e-learning and cakes. Saw a demo of QR codes and Paper Show two technologies that have real potential (although I will have to think more about how to use the former than the latter). If nothing else, QR-codes may convince me to actually try the mobile internet! (A nice side affect of using the mobile internet is that I might be able to use TwitPic to get my photos off my phone!...
I have just uploaded an updated version of my Health and Safety and Project Planning presentation to SlideShare. The soundtrack is a bit School-of-Engineering-at-Swansea specific, but if you can make use of the slides, please be my guest. [H&S And Project Planning](http://www.slideshare.net/cpjobling/hs-and-project-planning-presentation “H&S And Project Planning”)http://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=hs-and-project-planning-1223491503611174-8&stripped_title=hs-and-project-planning-presentation View more [presentations](http://www.slideshare.net/) from [Chris Jobling](http://www.slideshare.net/cpjobling).