Seeing as how it’s Burns Night tonight, here’s a bit more information on my latest website launch at work. Last year, BBC Radio Scotland commissioned a project to record of all Robert Burns’s works. My job was to publish them as a permanent online archive: The Complete Burns. There were already plenty of places around the web where one could read Burns’s works, but these new audio recordings […]

The BBC Learning English Blogs – which run on the platform Ali and I developed – won in the UK category of the ELT08 Innovation Awards. The Learning English Blogs transform the concept of blogging from an individual pursuit into a collaborative learning process. The blogs retain a rich vein of individual expression since the ‘student blogger’ writes about topics […]

Today the BBC Radio Scotland website – my pet project for the last couple of months – relaunched. Wil was responsible for the new look; Ryan programmed the labour-saving back-end & some of the front end; Carol, Alan and Jo prepared all the content; and I built the rest of the front-end and kinda ran the show. The new […]