Archive for October, 2007

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This is a proper venue, this is.

So but in my youth, I played classical piano. The venues were decidedly stiff and filled with grannies, velvet curtains, Steinways and Bechsteins, that sort of thing. Many years have gone by, and the music I make has changed. A lot. And the sort of venue has changed even more.
This Wednesday, I play at [...]

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Two things

So today, two major things happened to me.
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My eldest son, Thomas, stopped me from going out the door to work in the morning. He said: “Thomas come with you to the office.” I tried to explain that he couldn’t, and that I had to go on my own; then he hugged me and he moaned: [...]

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Learning on the hoof?

Today, I built my first mobile learning classroom. It means I can teach anywhere between 5 and 16 students at a time in any room with an ethernet connection. They just grab a macbook out of the cart, I start an 802.11g network, take over their screens, and here we go. No, really. Here’s some [...]

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