XKCD Passwords
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.
A beautiful January day to start ticking off squares & peaks. Glad I didn’t go out yesterday with fairly significant flooding in the local area. Distance: 13km. New squares: 9. New peaks: 2. First up was my home square of SD9905. The local playing fields were looking picturesque in the morning sun & frost. The…
DownloadSquad reports that Google has finally released it’s new version of Jotspot as the rebranded and updated Google Sites, all part of the Google Apps suite. More to come when I’ve had a play around with it. could be a real contender for the educational wiki crown which currently sits with the excellent Wikispaces in…
This post has been knocking around my head for a while, I hope it comes out as intended. I think it began to form whilst reading Dan Meyer‘s blog post questioning the use of Web2.0 in instructing Math. I have been trying to knit together my love of technology into my teaching of Maths ever…
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEwdRE8MKQg&hd=1] Thanks to Tom Barrett for pointing out this fantastic video. Great resource for assemblies, Geography lessons, Science lessons etc.
Scrolling through things I had starred for holiday reading, I noticed that Gapminder.org has been updated. I have blogged previously about Gapminder and the fantastic Hans Rosling, it is a fantastic tool for visualising a wealth of World data on lovely scatter graphs that animate changes through the years. Watch one of Hans Rosling’s classic TED talks to see…
Well after nearly three years at my first school I have secured a promotion at another high school in central Manchester. I start after Easter as Assistant Subject Leader of Maths, then two weeks later my new Head of Department goes off on maternity leave, leaving me in charge! I’m most excited about the responsibility…