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I’m trying out new themes at the moment, so if the site looks like someone has broken it – it’s all my fault!
I’m trying out new themes at the moment, so if the site looks like someone has broken it – it’s all my fault!
Peter Twinning Reviews “Learning Futures” From agent4change.net: Within this discourse the role of schools is portrayed as being to prepare young people for this rapidly changing ‘knowledge age’ by developing their ‘21st century skills’, including communication, collaboration, learning to learn, and high levels of IT competence. In ‘Learning Futures’ Keri Facer describes this discourse as ‘the…
Back to back snow days – what more could you want? Busier trails today that I could actually run. Distance: 14km. New squares: 8. New peaks: 1. New Trigs: 1. Looking back over Greenfield to Alderman’s. SD9903. Climbing up Alphin felt a little like Everest today. Such lovely conditions brought a queue of people…
Well I’m very excited, in a bid to trial wifi in our school, and spend some of our remaining budget I will be getting at least 6 new eeePCs next week. Initially they will be mainly for web access to the excellent MyMaths and other resources, but I’m sure they will become an integral part…
Hype for Mac – HTML5 Animation For Schools? This looks really nice. Key-frame animation software on the Mac that creates beautiful looking HTML5 websites. This could be great for the animation units & web creation units of things like OCR Nationals & Creative iMedia. Anyone used this / recommend it?
Disclaimer: I would consider Dawn a friend, thanks to many interactions via Twitter & Teachmeets etc even though we’ve only met a handful of times.. I won’t go into great detail about the work she has done as her blog has details of it all. LWF Bio. Dawn discussed using Nintendo DS & Wii with the pupils are so engaged…
There’s been much talk and excitement of late about Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) as the cure to all IT provision ills in schools. Whilst it certainly has a place and should be encouraged it’s not a replacement for other models at the present time. This post owes a lot to Ryan Bretag’s recent writing,…