7 Christmas Characters At The Office: Which One Are You?
It's the most wonderful time of the year, right? When everyone is eyeing their calendars, counting down the minutes until they can switch...
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5 Essential SEO Tips for Boosting Your Online Presence in 2024
Digital Marketing=Musical Chairs Digital Marketing is a lot like musical chairs. You can’t sit down for too long and if you don’t keep...
A Christmas Treat! Chapter One of The Drifter In The Wind
Read The First Chapter Of The Jesse Clayton Adventures As it’s nearly Christmas, and that part 4 The Lion, The Drifter and The Wayward...
Acing An Interview: 4 Tips To Give You An Edge
Interview Coming Up? Read On It's never easy hunting for a new job. You do all the leg work, research roles, update your CV for the...
25 Years of Half-Life: The Untold Story of Valve's Flagship Game
Happy Birthday, Half-Life! When people talk of defining moments in gaming history and fixed points in the timeline people will...
My First Cover Letter: What's Needed For a Great First Draft
Never written a Cover Letter before? Helping somebody write theirs? Or has it just been a long time? I've got you covered Cover Letters:...
Gaming Is Good For You. No, Seriously.
Why Games Are Good For Your Mental Health Taking an excerpt for a recent article of Oxford Open Learning, I'm talking about how your Xbox...
CV Writing Tips: The Fundamentals of CV Writing
In my latest piece for Twinkl Educational Publishing I start a new four-part series on how teachers can help their students take their...
Changing Jobs? Upscale Your CV With These Tips
Read On TO Get Your CV Top of the Pile Your CV can go through long periods of neglect. Like that houseplant in your kitchen or the weeds...
Beyond Wikipedia: Other Places to Get Your Info
Another Article For Twinkl Looks At The Limitations of Wikipedia Wikipedia, launched in 2001, is a widely used online encyclopaedia that...
Firefly, Will Smith and a Giant Mechanical Spider --An Interview with DSP's Kevin Diamond
I talk all things Clayton, what makes a great Western and how I got involved in the frontier in the first place. In a recent interview...
Spotting Fake News: A guide for Teachers (and anyone else) on how to fact check
Why The Need To Question The News? Information is everywhere. Television. Computer. Your phone. Social Media. The world has never been as...
New Collaboration with Twinkl! Helping Teachers to Help Students Spot Fake News
Image courtesy of Twinkl Nurturing Information Literacy, Spotting Fake News and Empowering Learners The first in a new series of articles...
Barbie Makes a Billion and Deservedly So . . . It's Sublime
The "Pretty" Half of Barbenheimer Isn't the Film You Think it is Image courtesy of WB Pictures Barbie's Box Office Bonanza Barbie...
How To Overcome Writer's Block
German author Thomas Mann once said that “a writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people”, and anyone...
Neurodivergent Overwhelm: What it is, How it Happens and How to Reduce it
As a neurodivergent student, you may be familiar with the feeling of overwhelm. It can be caused by a variety of factors, including...
Mission: Impossible Represents a Critical Moment For Cinema and Not Necessarily a Good One
I went to see Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning: Part One ( I know, right?) last night and I came away from it with a really sour taste...
The Importance Of Sleep
We’ve all done it at some point in our lives. With a deadline looming, exams on the horizon or the allure of “just one more episode”, it...
How To Write Effective Beginnings And Endings In Fiction
There’s a difference between writing and storytelling. Writing is easy and storytelling isn’t. You pick up a pencil and scribble words,...
Marvel's Dangerous First Step With AI: Secret Invasion' Credits Makes For Ominous Watching
Marvel’s latest underwhelming show is making headlines. Not for its story, but for its opening credits. There’s been a lot of uproar over...
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