Tim Dobson's Blog

I recently spotted a message to the BECTA Safetynet Mailing list from Miles Berry and Terry Freedman.
The message mentioned how they are doing a presentation at BETTS conference in January (apparently some big education conference thingy!) and since they are doing it on

What are your kids learning when you're not looking?

where they explore things young people learn using computers and IT outside the formal education sphere and activities widely recognised as being educationally beneficial.

To get some hard figures on this they set up a questionnaire for young people to fill asking them of their experiences of how they could and do use computer facilities at home and in educational establishments.

Due to my work with DFEY, I couldn't help but see the funny side of this, so I wrote these satiric HOWTOs:

I'd like to share a few thoughts with you about a book I've been reading recently, which has really inspired me whilst being greatly amusing.
At Barcamp Manchester, they were giving away copies of this book; I picked up one to look at later - I could always ebay it later. Never before has a book of such calibre caused me so much amusement, I seriously recommend this book for it's outstanding range of comic delights.