Health & Wellbeing in Integrated Learning Communities

After a good long summer break from blogging, I’m back with a bounce with a brand new site for you to explore!

Click the link to find out more about Crofting Connections, I’m a member of the steering group and was only too happy to help out with setting up the blog and email addresses.

Crofting Connections is a fantastic way to provide a rich learning task for providing opportunities for learning outcomes that cut across the whole curriculum. The site tells you more.

The techy bit..the site is a wordpress.com blog that has multi-user functionality, so that means that all involved in the project can update the site, schools can post news and keep the site current. The site however is self-hosted, which means we have our very own domain site, www.croftingconnections.com which serves as a platform for the wordpress site.

It was relatively easy to set up by using a company called www.uk2.net and with the ‘home’ package I got 50 free email addresses linked to the domain name and IT backup help for a year.

This worked out at about £65 a year. Not cheap really, but when you think how much people pay for IT company to set something like that up, it’s cheap as chips (or should that be carrots)

Please enjoy the project and see how it develops…

I discovered this great animation on Twitter, my good colleague Bill Boyd had ReTweeted it. I’m currently training for a half marathon and each time I run I go through a journey, ups and downs, weather, mental walls and good music to keep me going.

This wonderful animation appears to be sponsored by Nike and quite honestly, I can say that my Nike iPod plus has got me through some tough runs, so I have an appreciation of the sports company.

The genius work of James Jarvis and his animation site can be located here, another reason why I found it so enjoyable was it reminded me of childhood books like Jan Pienknowski, Richard Scarry and maybe a little bit of Dr Seuss.

Onwards from AKQA on Vimeo.