Hello Digital runs next week, and I for one am looking forward to some interactive insights into the world of serious gaming, something that we at IE have a proud track record in. I’ll be at the Gaming Gets Serious seminar and I’m looking forward to hearing from Geoff Henderson from the Digital Native Academy, Kam Memarzia and of course Matt Dunn from fish in a bottle.

Some other good stuff planned too, including the regional launch of 4IP.

LTS (Learning and Teaching Scotland) are at it again - promoting what many of us already believe, that computers can be good for your mental agility. Mums and dads take note - your children may well be on Messenger, Facebook, Bebo, YouTube, Habbo, all at the same time, multi-tasking in a multi-multi world(!) but they might also be improving their maths, especially if they’re simultaneously doing some extra brain games.

Yet again another challenge for education game designers - keeping them engaging yet simple enough to be used at the same time as half a dozen different other social networking tools. For a useful summary of the LTS report, check out the BBC coverage.