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ICT Across The Curriculum
Having settled in at my new school, plans are afoot… …it looks like I should be taking a role in expanding the use of ICT across the curriculum. I’m going to do this in conjunction with a member of the IT teaching department. I plan to focus on collecting together good practice that already takes…
Programming Principles
Programming Principles I like these analogies and principles for programming basics, nice talking points for teachers using Code Academy as a starting point for teaching programming.
Pupil blogging with a wiki
I have finally started one of my classes blogging. I decided to use a wiki from the excellent Wikispaces for this purpose rather than a blog. I took inspiration from Kristian Still’s excellent wiki at his previous school (which seems to have dissapeared now Kristian has moved schools?). I also made the choice as I’m…
Poor parent parking = detention!
The Beeb have an amusing news story about a school in Kent who are going to give pupils detention if their parents park in the bus lane outside school. I can just imagine the arguments if we tried to enforce this at our school! 🙂
5 reasons to love a MacBook
I have a confession to make, I used to love my PC, but, now I think I love my MacBook sooo much more! I finally took the plunge and bought it last week, I had planned to buy a laptop on a forthcoming trip to New York, but the exchange rate has gone so far…
FizzBuzz CodeYear Fun #schoolstech
With todays announcement from Mr Gove it seems a good point to reflect on my first steps on a year long coding journey. I spent my Tuesday evening completing the first week of lessons on the brilliant CodeYear. It took me about an hour and a half and was a great little introduction to Javascript….