Stephen Powell, thoughts mostly about learning

Trying to get my head around the morasses of issues surrounding Intellectual property has lead me to do some investigating and I think I am starting to make some progress…..
Firstly, there are several forms of IP protection as explained by the Design Council. They include:
Patents – “apply to inventions such as new [...]

This is a neat piece of software introduced to me by Jed
This ”TiddlyWiki” installation is a collection of some ’stuff’ that I might want to visit when not using my own computer. There are several neat things about this technology. It has some of the attributes of a wiki, some of the [...]

I have talked about this service many times with Nick Billowes (a New Zealand friend and colleague) and sad to say Nick we have missed the entrepreneurial boat! Here (West End suburb of Leicester) you can access DVD all day every day through touch screens. You can see what is available, [...]

A great web service from Frappr. A piece of mapping software that allows groups of people to locate themselves on a map and ’shout’ a comment to each other. This would be a great start to an online course/programme or for anyone running collaborative projects between schools or individuals in different loactions. [...]

A dry autumn has meant a lean time for fungi. However, a couple of weeks ago in North Wales we spent a couple of hours seeing what we could find in the woodlands around Bethesda. Nothing was eaten:^)

Over the past couple of weeks, I have been reflecting upon aspects of my ‘management’ and ‘leadership’ style prompted by instances of my inability to perform well – some miscalculations!

I think this has been a useful exercise as I have begun to understand some critical distinctions in the differences of management/leadership roles that are required [...]