Tumblr iPhone App
The new Tumblr app just made blogging even easier. Perhaps I should start doing it more frequently again?!
Well you can’t have missed the fact that Google has finally unleashed Google Wave to 100,000 lucky testers, and with it a tsunami of hype. I was lucky enough to be one of the 100,000 first wave. Enough of the puns, if you want a bytesize explanation of what Wave is then this video is…
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…
Sol Lederman has been filling my rss reader and my twitter stream with little golden nuggets of Maths over the last few months. He recently suggested a link/blog exchange between Maths bloggers which seems like a great idea to me – hence this post. So go check out his blog http://wildaboutmath.com/, maybe take part in…
I’ve been using the excellent Editorial app on my iPad increasingly for all my writing and note taking needs. Editorial is a geeky combination of text editor and Python programming playground. You can create or install workflows that do everything from basic text formatting to highlighting verbs to sharing the text with other services like…
An average US citizen on an average day, consumes 100,500 words, whether that be email, messages on social networks, searching websites or anywhere else digitally.. ..And as we sleep for seven hours a day, in practice that means that three quarters of waking time is spent receiving information, the majority of which is electronic. And…
This post was written as part of my day job for Community Brands / Assembly: https://assembly.education/monitoring-attendance-new-academic-year/. Introduction Data Trends last looked at attendance back in January. Since then, there have been developments in this area that school leaders should be aware of. In this blog, industry expert Dan Stucke looks at changes in attendance management that…