Some reading…
Like the good old days of ‘edu-blogging’ Lisa Nielsen has compiled 20 great blogs to read. Go add them to your good old fashioned rss reader and enjoy!
Like the good old days of ‘edu-blogging’ Lisa Nielsen has compiled 20 great blogs to read. Go add them to your good old fashioned rss reader and enjoy!
So this morning we gave our training session to around 20 teachers on using Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs). We had an hour and a half, enough time to scratch the surface of what was possible but little more. Hopefully we sowed some seeds that will grow from there. We split the session into three parts: An…
The two following videos have been doing the rounds over the last week in the ‘blogosphere’ (I do hate that word!). But just because you’ve seen them a couple of times doesn’t mean everyone in your school has – share them with you network now. We used them both as discussion starters in Leadership Meetings…
School colour-codes pupils by ability I’m trying to work out just how wrong this is? I know it’s not right because it just feels terribly wrong. But. I do support setting, we do it in Maths in every secondary school I’ve ever worked in because it just works. Pupils do need to work at different…
Minority Report meets a Wii and has lovely babies! Oblong’s ‘Mezzanine’ looks truly amazing! Just take a step back and imagine a classroom of the future equipped with one of these and an iPad for each child. Effortless and rich in content – I hope Promethean & Smart are quivering in their pampered boots! Source:…
Back in September I was keen to get the Computing teaching community to work together to write a bank of high quality multiple choice questions. In fact, rather poorly, it was the last thing I wrote on this blog! Head back to see why I think that good quality MCQs can be an invaluable part…
I’ve finally got round to changing my 3 default passwords using this method. I have 1 for banking. 1 for my main social media and blogging accounts and then 1 for all the other sites I subscribe to.