More from Heligan

Some more excellent photos of the time spent in the Lost Gardens of Heligan with a group of Cornish teachers and children. These images were taken by Mary Neale of 'Photography and Design'.

Heligan revisited with WildKey

Steve Gayler from WildKey has just emailed me the link to the data collected:

WildKey downloaded the data into a central database, and showed the group,how quickly they could redisplay this data as a webpage.Click on the points near peoples names to see personalised content, it will be on the right hand
side of the screen, so you may have to scroll over.

The Google Earth visualisation will be found here asap.

The Lost Gardens of Heligan

What a brave project for Cornwall LA, led by Linda Prideaux, for late January ... but the spin off was enormous.
On Thursday 31st January with the heavens bucketting down a group of teachers met to work with a group of children (and it was the children who were mentoring the teachers here !) in an exciting project in the Lost Gardens of Heligan. This will certainly, for me be a place for a future visit and I fancy for a good number of the participants too.

Wonderful ... you can follow the minute by minute blog of the whole event here.

Deepest Cornwall ...

An exciting day set up for tomorrow ... I am in deepest Cornwall not far from 'The Lost Gardens of Helligan' where I, a large group of Cornish teachers and another large group of Cornish children (The children come from the Bishop Bronescombe School in St Austell.) are going to use some advanced ICT to investigate invertebrates and plot their positions on EDA machines and upload the data to Google Earth. The engine that will drive all of this is called WildMap ( with its partner WildKey). As well as this the children ( and their teacher helpers) are going to be recording sounds and impressions of what they find as .wav files so that they can be used for podcasts which will be developed during the afternoon using the Softease Podium software.

All very exciting ...real datahandling for an authentic purpose.

PS Weather Update for Cornwall 31st January ( near here ) is rain and a bit more rain.