Moving Home – to Tumblr
Well I like it over here, so I might stay a while!
I’m still alive, settling in to the new school has killed of blogging temporarily, I have a mountain of ideas that I intend to implement over the coming months and no-doubt blog about here. The first of which is an updated Scheme of Work for 11-14 Maths. To see my thoughts and a plea for…
Inspired by Simon Job, this is a post about how I surf the torrential tidal wave of information that is out there on the Internet, how I filter it down into a manageable stream to consume and how I save the best bits for later. I have been using Google Reader for the last 3 years or so…
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…
Well our first 2 weeks of blogging for school have been very interesting. We seem to have developed a growing core of pupils who check the blog regularly. On a personal note the little snippets of recognition from other teachers around the web have been very welcome. In fact, I guess, I would have to…
I attended Alan O’Donohoe’s excellent Hack To The Future event at Our Lady’s High School in Preston on Saturday with 13 of our students, many of whom are on our GCSE Computing course. There were many highlights, in particular I should mention Freaky Clown and his tales of a hacker turned good. I won’t repeat…
Schools across the UK are currently getting to grips with the new performance management framework that is being introduced nationwide this school year. I’m a ‘Main Scale’ teacher at the moment, and one of the benefits of the new system appears to be how ‘Threshold’ will be tackled. Previously you had to apply to pass…