I'm told that in Finland they say, 'there are three good reasons to be a teacher — June, July, August'. It was certainly a good, long summer (some terrible weather notwithstanding). I read a lot, online and off, but mostly the focus was on DIY at home, catching up on things left undone for a number of years now. I saw more of IKEA than I think anyone should have to, share Michael Sippey's sense of awe at IKEA's design-and-execution, feel I earned one of these (not sure where I saw this linked to over the summer, but it hails from Onfocus)
and marvelled at the scale of the IKEA "project" (not sure, either, where I came across this video, but I think Ben Hammersley pointed at it):
And my spirits were lifted by Logomotto Gallery ("Logo and motto are mixed at random")
Autumn is now here and the new school year is well under way. My thoughts have turned, inter alia, to a book I'm co-writing with Judy Breck on education in the digital age (to be called, Intertwingled) and to the new IT course we're evolving at St Paul's for the 13 year-olds who joined us this September. More soon about the latter — and more here on other things, too, now that my life is not dominated by either the 10pm check-out queue at IKEA or home decorating. (Unsurprisingly, micro-blogging really came into its own for me this summer.)
