This is my Google Teacher Academy application video. For more information on 20% time in my classroom please visit this blog post, our class blog and Adeel’s Rubik’s blog. Fingers crossed, I couldn’t apply last time around as it clashed with my wedding!
Bio Sugata Mitra is currently Professor of Educational Technology at the School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences at Newcastle University. He has spent many years in a huge number of research posts. With regards to education he is most famous for his Hole In The Wall Experiment whereby he put an Internet enabled PC in…
Google announced a new product to the World at it’s Google I/O conference yesterday, Google Wave. There has been much written about it around the Web, by folks more intelligent than I, so if you want to catch up on the intricacies then read some of these sites: Ars Technica Tech Crunch Tech Crunch again…
Time to switch to tumblr? Will has inspired me to take a fresh look at tumblr and see if it might be better suited for my blogging needs than my self hosted WordPress at www.mrstucke.com. I do feel something inbetween a blog and twitter might suit me better as work gets busier and busier.
Google Docs School Newspaper – what a great idea. Laura Chesebro via Jeff Utecht.
I was honoured to be invited to Becta-X (the x stands for exchange) during the Easter break. The conference brought together 75 leading educators and 75 leading people from the Media sector. Thanks to @TomBarrett for getting me the invite – truly much appreciated. The aims of the day were: The way the digital media industry influences…
Looking back on my near 20 years of paying union subs and working with unions in leadership I can think of a few reasons for apparent apathy in the teacher strikes voting.