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    Posted
    8 July 2007 @ 2pm

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    Uncategorized, bbcnews, books, dfee, education, penguin, reading

    “Scheme” to get boys “reading”

    Right, this is the kind of thing that really pisses me off. From BBC News Online:
    Scheme aims to get boys reading
    Secondary schools in England are being given free books for their library, in an attempt to get teenage boys reading.
    Schools will be able to select 20 books from a Department for Education and Skills list […]


    Posted
    10 May 2007 @ 1pm

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    bbc, bebo, channel4, education, gaming, gender, im, kids, learning, literacy, mattlocke, media, mindcandy, ofcom, online, perplexcity

    Channel 4 - In The Wild / Living On Line

    Living On Line
    Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor, C4 Education
    Bronwyn Kunhardt, Director of Citzenship, Microsoft
    Rachel O’Connell, Chief Safety Officer, Bebo, exCyberspace Research Unit,
    Ewan McIntosh, blogger (edublogs) and social media specialist
    Pretty much liveblogging/transcribing this, so apologies for transcription errors, typos, etc.
    Matt Locke - joined C4 ten days ago: what we’re talking about today is the future of C4 […]



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    Extenuating Circumstances is a weblog published by Dan Hon, co-founder and CEO of Six to Start, an ARG design agency.

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    “I think what we're experimenting with is using lots of different kinds of media and then using them together to create a new platform to tell stories.”
    – On Alternate Reality Games at SXSW 2007
    10 March 2007

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