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Welcome to my blog! While I think of something important to write, why not read about me and have a look at my other blogging activities?
Welcome to my blog! While I think of something important to write, why not read about me and have a look at my other blogging activities?
A short post to accompany a presentation at the AECRICT12 TeachMeet at Manchester Met Uni tonight. Digital Leaders is a simple but brilliant idea that has gained great traction in schools across the UK and beyond over the past 3 years. In a nutshell.. use students to lead technology supported learning in your school. Student leadership in…
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…
Sometimes a couple of ideas come together to form a little flash of inspiration. I’ve had a Pinterest account for a while but not really used it personally or thought of using it in education. A blog post from Mark Warner got me thinking though. Pinterest is a social site that encourages users to create…
I have been meaning to blog about a project I have had the pleasure of being involved with. The post hasn’t quite reached fruition yet so here’s a little teaser: How tall is the Giant? How did you work it out? Answers on a postcard (or preferably a comment 😉 )
Facebook recently updated their Groups feature. Allowing finer control over groups which you set up, who can join, who can post, who can share etc.. Their are also improvements to how you are notified about group updates and a new feature called ‘docs’ that provides a Google Docs-esque shared notepad / document. Group chat is…
Like most of the UK (and beyond), I’ve spent the last 5 days watching with dismay as England has descended into widespread looting, arson & violence. It’s been a shocking example of just how thin the bubble of civilised society is and just how close we live to something akin to Lord Of The Flies….