Leon Cych's blog

The new NESTA report just out (June 2007) Hidden Innovation - How Innovation happens in six 'low innovation' sectors is something that every senior politician and strategic manager in England must read.

In this piece I'll be concerned with the education bit as that's what I have done in depth for the last 4 years - look at innovation in education with practitioners using web 2.0 apps and blogging, pod and vodcasting about it – disseminating good practice wherever I can to anyone who would listen.

I have resisted writing about Second Life up until now, because until two weeks ago, I knew nothing about it. But an experience last night that was my most intriguing yet in that world, prompted me to post this, that and the fact that the Money Programme on the Beeb broadcast about it today as well. This is the educational aspect of the same world before you all go off to make your fortunes and far more valuable in my view.

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I came across the VoIP symbian program called Fring recently.

Being the owner of a Nokia N93 brick I saw that it was co

As an indie ICT education consultant who works purely in the highly specialised world of new and innovative technologies I get to see most of the exciting and ground-breaking stuff out there fairly quickly and if I don't, I make it my business to find it. My living depends on searching for, discovering, filming, podcasting, writing about and disseminating innovative technologies and practice in the world of education. I like problems and I like smart and elegant solutions applied in creative contexts.

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