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Gapminder World
At the end of an ordinary Year 9 lesson on scatter graphs I had a flash of inspiration and remembered the fantastic Gapminder World tool courtesy of Google and Gapminder. For the uninitiated this is a dynamic graphing package populated with a range of data about countries covering the last 30 years. You choose two…
Director of E-Learning Interview
This Thursday I have an interview for the post of Director of E-Learning at a local High School. Inspired by Doug Belshaw’s recent interview/blog/twitter success, (congratulations again Doug!) I would appreciate my personal learning network’s help! I have to present for 10 mins and also teach for 30. My presentation is on “Your Vision for…
Back from the dead
My blog is resurrected! I’ve not posted for years and have lost the last few posts in various moves. I don’t stand by much of what was written here anymore, but it stands as a relic from the past that’s important to me and my learning. Someone wise once said to me you should have…
£100 million for Kaka – crazy? Look at the Maths…
Image via Wikipedia It is widely reported that Zinedine Zidane cost around £46 million pounds when he moved from Juventus to Real Madrid in 2001. In 2001 the Euro : Sterling exchange rate was around 0.6:1 £46m / 0.6 = €77m Now, that was over 7 years ago. That’s quite a while in the economic…
Edtech Cynicism
1. Lots of people will do small-scale innovative projects with no funding or resources, because they love trying new things and doing awesome stuff.2. Some companies or institutions will “invent” or “discover” something that one or more of these people have been doing, and it will be branded as their own.3. This branded “innovation” will…
Web 2.0 Tools
(This was written as a handout to accompany the IWB Training Session I took part in, I’ve posted it here as I hope it is of use to others! It is by no means a comprehensive list, my aim was to give staff a few pointers as to where they could start looking to integrate…