Graphing Google
Now you can plot mathematical functions right on the search result page. Just type in a function and you’ll see an interactive graph on the top of the search results page.

Now you can plot mathematical functions right on the search result page. Just type in a function and you’ll see an interactive graph on the top of the search results page.

Kodu is a new game programming language / tool from Microsoft. It has had a very low-key launch, I came across it as it was featured in the excellent Edge Magazine last month. Kodu is initially available to the public on X-Box Live Marketplace for about £3.50. I have been fortunate enough to be allowed…
Could some of last weeks looting in England be put down to the pirate culture that the majority of 10-30 year olds have grown up with in the UK? This continues my thoughts from my previous post about the riots. Much has been written about the volume of online piracy over the past 14 years…
A post I’ve been meaning to write for many months… Battles: I have had my battles with Internet filtering in the past, but I’m now the man in charge. Every school I have worked in so far in my opinion has had an old fashioned ‘head in the sand’ view to filtering and acceptable use…
I’ve been trying to use my iPad in the classroom as much as possible, as a device for use in schools it is close to being perfect. One of the drawbacks has been working out how to get what’s on the iPad to be projected onto my classroom wall. You can connect it with the iPad…
I’m doing a quick presentation at Teach Meet North West tomorrow night in Manchester. If you haven’t been to a Teachmeet before it’s an ‘unconference’ where enthusaistic teachers get together to share ideas, usually with an E-Learning theme. I’m doing a 2 minute nano-presentation on Google Forms, based on my interview / blog post from…
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…