'I'm comin out'

I've got to confess ... I'm a 'feeds' junky. Just can't help it ...every time I click on that little yellow star and my 'feeds' open I get this adrenalin rush of excitement that just knocks me out. Each and every time there is a note, a link, an idea that transports me to worlds I dream about. Sometimes I get reinforcement of ideas postulated, sometimes it is something that moves my thinking on, sometimes it is an information source which takes me to an information source which ... you get the idea.

Today ... as any other day... I worked my way through the feeds ... in descending order ... Alan November, Allanah Appleby, Booruch, Clusterblog, DfES (sad isn't it), DJD on Ning, etc onwards and downwards until I cane to edu.blogs.com and there I paused as my eye was caught by this, it was the creative writing reference that caught me:

KimP’s Blog » Samorost
Kim thinks about what she'll do with the game for creative writing.
KimP’s Blog » Samorost - Day 1
Kim shows how her initial walkthrough went.
KimP’s Blog » Writing with Samorost
Some great examples of creative writing having used Samorost as the stimulus
KimP’s Blog » Thinking about Samorost
Using Edward De Bono's six thinking hats to understand how we could exploit games in writing and speaking
KimP’s Blog » Wondering Why????
Why are there so many gains from creative writing when games are used as the stimulus?

And I wondered why Ewan would have all these links there and what was 'Samorost' anyway? So I typed 'Samorost'into Google and was lost to the world for the next hour or so as I explored.I can't tell you how taken I am with this and I am so excited that a new discovery like this can excite me... just proves that it is possible to teach and old dog etc etc .



I then went back to the posts on KimP's blog to see what had taken Ewan and read about what had taken Kim. The interest she had created with her young students in her school, Belmore South Primary, in Sydney, was exemplary. It just needs reading and running with. Just can't help wondering what else I have missed as this work was done last June.

I am going to delve into Samorost 2 now, not that I have finished with V1 yet. It is just that, like a child approaching the swimming pool, I want to get in there before everyone else uses up all of the water.

The rest of my feeds can wait ... or can they ?... who knows what new excitements lurk in the depths of 'ICT Inspirations' or 'The International Schools Island'...