November 1, 2008 – 4:56 pm
For anyone left who hasn’t unsubscribed during the blogging hiatus, you might want to redirect your feedreader to blog v.2 at the imaginative URL of blog.mrstacey.org.uk My plan is that the new blog will be more practical and more focussed on the stuff I’m actually doing in my classroom. I’m also pulling a range of [...]
As unofficial web geek for the school, I get used to throwing ideas around, most of which dissapper into the ether. But occassionally, one catches and it turns in to something far better than you imagined. Back when we launched the blog farm, a few teachers tried out a few activities with a few classes, [...]
Over here Doug Belshaw is asking for help drawing up the job description for his new role as ‘E-learning tutor’. Rather than leave a lengthy thread there, I’d thought I’d add more thoughts here… Doug, As you know I’ve been battling this one myself (although unofficially) for the last couple of years. For what it’s [...]
I have always had bad spelling. I could always remember enough of my spellings in spelling tests at school to average around 7/10, but they’ve often not transfered to my long term memory. The only ‘difficult’ word I can always spell correctly is ‘necessary’ because my brilliant GCSE English teacher had posters with mnemonics on them [...]
Like many others I’ve had a problem with the idea of digital natives and digital immigrants, first posed by Mark Prensky . However, I am increasingly of the opinion there there is a division here we need to be aware of. Unlike Prensky, I don’t think it’s as simple as saying that because someone has [...]
Those of you not reading through a feed reader will notice I’ve changed the theme on the blog again. Each version is less cluttered that the last, but after a few months seems too cluttered again. There’ll be some more changes to the sidebars when I get a bit more time, and I’m considering having [...]
For a while now I’ve been interested in ways to get the message about the use of educational technology as a tool to transform learning out there to other teachers. Or more precisely, I’ve been interested in the puzzle of why more of them aren’t leaping in and doing it. Sure, there are those with [...]
When I first read about it, the 31day Comment Challenge was one of those things I skipped over. I think if it were running over the summer I’d be more likely to get involved, but at this time of year I don’t have the time to commit to changing my online behaviour in a fairly [...]
 There’s a saying in the UK that it’s not what you know that gets you places, it’s who you know. This was a reflection of the fact that in a Britain divided by class lines as it certainly was until the 1950′s 1 the people who were successful were (by and large) the product of [...]
April 29, 2008 – 11:13 pm
Why is it that all our pupils do the same courses at the same time, with people who happen to have been born between the same two Septembers as them? Why is it that school starts and finishes at the same time for everyone? Why is it that lessons last an hour, and then we [...]
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