Codecademy

So, one of my many plans for this year is to learn to code. For a while now I’ve felt frustrated about my lack of knowledge on what goes on ‘under the bonnet’… Read More →

Bear 71 tells us a story

Bear 71 is a multi media digital story telling project by Jeremy Mendes and Leanne Allison that charts the story of Bear 71 – a bear that lived her entire life under surveillance… Read More →

Bridging a digital divide – or trying to.

On Saturday 23rd July 2011 I hosted the first #hiddenbedford event which was part of the Bedford Busking Festival. #hiddenbedford isn’t an Art Gallery & Museum project, it’s a community collective with an… Read More →

Digitisation makes original artefacts better – The British Library 19th Century Historical Collection app and other things…

Hello all, I recently discovered the British Library’s app that has thousands of C19th books available. I found it to be such a wonderful app I felt I had to share just why… Read More →

Augmented Reality Dinosaurs

I’ve been looking for examples of digital technology that enables engagement and learning in museums. So far, this is my favourite. Obviously the Natural History Museum has lots of money to develop these… Read More →

The Future’s Bright?

The American Museum of Natural History has launched a new app. The app is the first to use ‘indoor GPS’ to locate your exact position within the museum, and then to direct you… Read More →

Explicit Links and Great Gladiators

I did mention how blogs, or more generally any kind of digital interpretation, has the power to make explicit  links between ideas in a way that can be more difficult with traditional exhibition… Read More →

Location, location, location

I’ve seen a lot of projects recently that use geotagging to add the location of an image, object, artefact, poem, story. Its got me thinking, does knowing where something is from make it… Read More →