It’s National Poetry Day and this year’s theme is “work” so in the spirit of this here is a haiku: Is a poem work? A poet would say yes, though poems feed the soul. Please feel free to contribute a haiku or other poem on this year’s subject of “work”
Just putting final touches to our Season of Inspiration online writing course that starts October 6th. I love teaching these courses as online spaces are really brilliant for writing workshops and students respond well to one another. We use Moodle of course. And we have another set of brilliant exciting
On the BBC’s dot.life blog, Rory Cellan-Jones recently discussed whether or not Brits can make any money from blogging. While there are various quotes from Ashley Norris, previously of Shiny Media who is convinced the UK situation is too small and parochial for bloggers to make money, Cellan-Jones is slightly
Following on from Saturday’s newspaper story about Fat Gourg, the 7-year-old’s monster who become an internet craze in France, the story hit the local TV yesterday – and the French fans have already put it up on Youtube. If they had shown the interview they did with me I would
Central ITV news filmed me in a mini workshop at a school in Nottingham. Yesterday the story ran on prime time local news about the search by a group of young French artists to find the artist who drew Fat Gourg in our Kids on the Net project, Monster Motel.
My project Kids on the Net features today in the Leicester Mercury – and it’s all down to a monster (“Fat Gourg”) created by seven-year-old Luke, during a writing workshop I held in a Leicestershire primary school in March 1999. Starting as one of our many writing ideas for kids
Our project Kids on the Net features today in the Leicester Mercury. In one of those strange but heartwarming Internet stories, a monster (“Fat Gourg”) created by a seven-year-old, Luke, during a writing workshop at a Leicestershire Primary School led by Reach Further’s Helen Whitehead in 1999 has become something
I will be giving a seminar at the Education Show in Birmingham on Saturday 1st March 2008. It’s about our 10-year-old project for young writers and their parents, teachers and librarians: Kids on the Net If you’re a teacher, educator or exhibitor, and you’re coming to the show why not
I have the immense privilege of updating the website of the poet Alison Brackenbury. I love her poems – and a new one appears on her website every two months. She’s let me know that “6.25”, a poem from her forthcoming book “Singing in the Dark”, will appear in The
The word “blog” is short for “weblog” or “web log” It was originally a way for people to document the interesting sites they found on the web, so they were originally just a list of links with some description. Then the metajournalling craze caught on and blogs became something more