Comments on: Beanbag for Bristol.. http://digitalbydefault.com/2008/06/23/beanbag-for-bristol/ Matt Jukes: digital strategy & open web in the public sector Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:04:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: becoming a beanbagger.. « backpass.org http://digitalbydefault.com/2008/06/23/beanbag-for-bristol/#comment-70 Sun, 06 Jul 2008 12:50:07 +0000 http://backpass.org/2008/06/23/beanbag-for-bristol/#comment-70 [...] a beanbagger.. Jump to Comments A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Beanbag Learning and offered my take on the site and how it could move forward (not that anyone had [...]

]]> By: Peter Ferne http://digitalbydefault.com/2008/06/23/beanbag-for-bristol/#comment-51 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:14:34 +0000 http://backpass.org/2008/06/23/beanbag-for-bristol/#comment-51 Hi Matt, glad to see you like the site and thanks for the constructive criticism. You are right about being early to the party we did a (very) soft launch last Monday, and we are just now watching the signups start to roll in. We have a bunch of bugfixes scheduled for rollout in the next few days and a redesign on the cards which is specifically about improving the layout and navigation of the Learning Resources section.

You are also right that there is already the facility to embed stuff from other sites. When you add a resource to Beanbag you can either upload something (and give it a Creative Commons licence) or you can link to stuff elsewhere on the web – and when you do that we try to be clever about working out what you are linking to. For example if you link to a YouTube video we will embed that right in the site. Have a look at Dr Quantum’s Double Slit Experiment.

We definitely will be taking a more active part in some of the web conversations around education and making a bit more noise but it’s good to see that people are starting to find us already. And it’s great to connect with other people based in Bristol with a shared passion for this stuff.

All the best

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