hodgers.com

Quite a few websites have joined the hodgers.com family recently:-

Karen Brookes

A beautiful hair salon in Giffnock

Presenting Property

Some really stylish Interior styling services and solutions

Craufurdland

A country estate specialising in ecological woodland burials

Bismarck & Herring Photography

The photography portfolio of longtime hodgers.com collaborator Steven Jones

Joel Kafetz

The personal website and showreel of the budding TV presenter

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 of interest to them. A ‘teacher blogger’ prepares posts in response to the student’s writings giving feedback on good language use, specific student mistakes and typical language errors, all within the dynamic of a content-based, personalised and meaningful dialogue.

A global audience contributes to the learning by completing the teacher tasks, providing words of encouragement to the student and giving their opinions on not only language use but also the topics under discussion – a rich source of additional material for the teacher.

This process results in a simple one-to-one blogging relationship creating a one-to-many learning environment, that continues long after each blog post.

British Council website

You might remember this similar post a couple of years ago.

Here are some RSS Feeds for the new Evening Times local websites

My pal Rachel is an artist and printmaker. She's just launched her excellent new portfolio website (built by hexapus).

Heart Buchanan's new BBC lunch delivery service (wot I built) has made the papers:-

Home comforts

HOW are the precious folk at the BBC coping with their move from the refined west end to Govan, you may or may not wonder.

Well, while their neighbours in Govan go down to an ice-cream van for their smokes, Nurofen and single nougats, the BBC types now have a lunchtime van delivery from their favourite deli on Byres Road which they were all missing. They can order their couscous, asparagus and chervil pasta salad, and goats' cheese and sunblushed tomato filo parcels online before 11am and it is delivered two hours later.

And no strident chimes of Greensleeves from the van - the staff are sent an e-mail when it arrives.

Yes, it's tough out there in Govan, but the plucky BBC types are surviving.

- The Herald diary

UPDATE: This Facebook application lets you check the menu each day from the comfort of, er, Facebook.