Category: #OddsAndEnds

The Motivation for Reading

I didn’t really read much as a kid (I need to hear the words) until my GCSE teacher encouraged me to read some books he thought I would be interested in. I remember he challenged me to read 10 pages a night. Soon I was hooked – it was slow going – but I was…
Your Experiences have value

I now realise that we are our experiences, and due to having associative brains, the product of our individual experiences means that we each have a unique angle on life. I suppose it then depends on whether we see this as an advantage or not…
What’s the big idea?

Mr Rocketship-of-an-idea. What’s not to like?
We teach Maths like a dead language

I’ve come across too many people who shudder at the thought of maths. The damage has already been done. To contrast, at my school I had a Maths teacher who was so passionate about Maths, we all got A’s. This thought came from an interview of Conrad Wolfram by Graham Brown-Martin in his most excellent…
Use your Loaf

I’ve no idea what I’m trying to say here – I just like the phrase. It’s one my dad would have used…
The Thinkathon

One of our sweet spots at wapisasa is the Thinkathon. We facilitate a (fairly intensive) thinking session with you (the client) in order to discover the purpose, message and ideas surrounding the things you’re trying to create. A lot of brain juice required – but ultimately very rewarding.
The Fried Egg Model

I’ve been trying to help BETT think about Further Education. In trying to explain how a hybrid approach to an event could work, I inadvertently created the resemblence of a fried egg…
A visit to the Tate Modern

A visit to the Tate Modern, and I can’t help but draw some pleasing orange blobs…
No silver bullet

I was struck by the fact that when applying for funding as a social business, that funders seem to be looking for a silver bullet. Unfortunately, wapisasa is far from a silver bullet, going deep with just a few. However, if there were more wapisasas…
Mozfest ’15 advert

I love Mozfest – the annual Mozilla festival – so I had to create an advert for it. This is the best I could do in about 15mins…
More power to your elbow

This visual badge was created so that I could throw it at people in order to encourage them…
Education prised open

Recently, I was asked to speak at Coventry University’s Disruptive Media Lab Open week. Another of the speakers was Nishant Shah – a man who’s thoughts-per-minute ratio is off the scale. I only grabbed one though…