Fussball kommt nach haus

12-June-2006

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I'm still completely behind in my postings. I promise I will get around to commenting on the edubloggers meeting and the Personal Learning environment seminar last week. And on the workshop on quality and Open Content in Como. But I am off yet again on my travels - this time to Bristol for a JISC meeting.

I have spent most of the weekend messing about trying to edit a video of my talk last week. More on that later.

But I have also managed to catch a few (well rather a lot) of the World Cup games this weekend.

My friend Lars took me with him to visit some friends on the other side of the river (as we say in Bremen). They have a fabulous community set up for the football.

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They live on a modern terraced street. Nearly all the people in the street have small kids and have evolved into a community of their own.

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For the football they have converted one of the garage spaces opposite the terrace into a (what?) - cinema, pub, community centre - I don't know what you would call it. But they have got a projector and a screen organized, garden seats and of course, a barrel of beer. Kids roamed in and out. People came and went. And in between the games there was a communal barbecue.

It was a fabulous day. Who says the German's don't know how to enjoy themselves?

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Graham Attwell; 12-June-2006 20:01:10;