Citizensheep. "Michael Grimes lives in Birmingham (UK). This is his blog about anything that he fancies."

It frustrates me that organisations still seem to think they can manage their reputations by controlling what information is spread about them. This is simply not possible anymore, and attempting it just makes you seem heavy-handed and out of touch. Far better to listen to what other people are saying about you and engage when [...]

Last night I went to Education Unbound 2008, a debate on ‘how social technologies are blurring formal and informal learning‘. The panel comprised Dan Sutch (Futurelab), David Noble (Hillside School, Fife), Andy Gibson (School of Everything) and Catherine Howell (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies). It was chaired by Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor at Channel [...]

Social ‘interaction’ is something I’ve never really got the hang of, and now with the internet thrown in it’s so much more confusing. I’ve just posted an item to Twitter that on re-reading I realised might be taken the wrong way by some people, so I posted another apologising if that was the case and [...]

My skepticism has been assuaged considerably since this was originally posted, but it would be wrong of me to alter the post so I haven’t; and besides, the arguments are still worth having. I want to endorse the idea of ‘digital mentors‘ [link updated], really I do; but the more I think about it the [...]

At three o’clock this morning I finished a frantic flurry of blog posts and Twitter tweets, and tried to sleep. Instead I began to panic. When this happens – and it happens a lot these days – I feel that I’m on an irreversible and rapid ascent to the peak of my sanity, at which [...]

I’m wondering if there’s any scope in voluntary sector bodies collaborating to deliver Opera’s Web Standards Curriculum (or a version of it) within the sector.

Just found this blog entry, which comprises ‘some more notes on the Citizenhsip agenda in [UK] schools for all to peruse‘.

A calendar for citizenship education events in the UK has recently been started. Anyone can view it, and extra features (such as searching) are available to those with a Google account (grab a Google account here). If you have an event you would like to see there, or you would like to be considered as [...]

The Citizenship Foundation is collecting examples of school websites with Citizenship pages or sections. If you know of one, they’d love you to tell them about it.

I’ve just come across these (can’t listen to them though, as I’ve no speakers on this machine!). First is a list of ‘podcasts for general studies and citizenship‘. Second is the Grassroots Channel, inspired by the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network, which “tells the stories of ordinary people who decided to change the world around them”.