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Google Plus – Google’s next take on social networking
So Google have started releasing their new social product Google+ or Google Plus. And it looks interesting if a little familiar to Twitter & Facebook. Of particular interest is their attempt to allow you to segment your acquaintances and share certain information with certain people via the ‘circles’ feature: This makes sense – I’m often a bit uncomfortable with my mix…
Fizz Buzz Scratch
The title sounds like a nasty affliction – but I actually want to describe a great lesson! I was looking for a nice challenge for my Year 9 Computing class to continue developing their understanding of variables, if statements and loops – ideally moving on to nested statements and loops. As ever Twitter came to…
Pre-Digital
Succinct and thought provoking piece by Seth Godin: Is your school pre-digital? I’ve spent much of the first 3 months of the school year setting up a new installation of SIMs. Much of our knowledge of our learners is digitised, but we really need some better software to make the most of this data. SIMs…
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Questionnaires Take 2 with Twitter, Google Forms & Wallwisher
I had an observation lesson today and decided to pull out all the technology tricks! We happened to be at a point in the scheme of work looking at data handling and collecting data in particular. I decided I’d develop the Questionnaires lesson which I used at interview last year. 60 minutes should be enough…
A ‘Technical Baccalaureate’?
A ‘Technical Baccalaureate’? The education charity Edge, which promotes technical and practical learning and of which Adonis is a trustee, is working closely with the Baker Dearing Educational Trust to come up with such a qualification. Under the plans, seen exclusively by Education Guardian, pupils aged 14 to 16 would spend 60% of their time…
ReBlog: Don’t Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog)
ReBlog: Don’t Be A Free User (Pinboard Blog) minimalmac: What if a little site you love doesn’t have a business model? Yell at the developers! Explain that you are tired of good projects folding and are willing to pay cash American dollar to prevent that from happening. It doesn’t take prohibitive per-user revenue to put…