Theon Stucke aka the end of blogging days

Theon Elliot Stucke meet the World. World, meet Theon (Taken with Instagram)
Well after nearly three years at my first school I have secured a promotion at another high school in central Manchester. I start after Easter as Assistant Subject Leader of Maths, then two weeks later my new Head of Department goes off on maternity leave, leaving me in charge! I’m most excited about the responsibility…
Ofsted in their infinite wisdom have deemed that half of Maths teaching in England is not up to scratch. The focus appears to be ‘teaching to the test’, now who’d of thought schools might reort to such a thing when the other option is to be labled as failing? I hope that this is a…
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…
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…
(This was written as a handout to accompany the IWB Training Session I took part in, I’ve posted it here as I hope it is of use to others! It is by no means a comprehensive list, my aim was to give staff a few pointers as to where they could start looking to integrate…
Talk about NUI – Natural User Interfaces (no touch). Obvious plug for Kinect. Showed Anybot robot that allows you to attend a meeting without actually being there. Talked through other examples of such tech. Challenges of creating Kinect: Have to be able to capture body pose. Come in many shapes, sizes and flexibilities! Depth camera made all this…