Two things led to this next event. The first is the work that Mr H has been doing with his maths Unprojects. The second was a growing awareness that for all my talk of moving learning on to real enquiry based studies that made the best use of ICT, I still wasn’t walking the walk. [...]
April 18, 2008 – 12:05 am
Back here I pondered a possible future for a new ICT course at KS4 which attracted some interesting comments. I recently though had a thought about KS3 which I’d like to share. There seems little argument to the idea that three years of mocked exercises intended to provide pupils with proficiency in using Microsoft Office [...]
January 21, 2008 – 10:23 pm
Origins Several things have led to this post, including: a conversation about the possibility of a new compulsory ICT course for year 10/11 at our school Andrew Field’s presentation at BETT on the work his school have been doing with Flash for the OCR Nationals (I always struggle with what site to link to when [...]
September 24, 2007 – 5:59 pm
Back in this post I mooted the idea of some kind of meet up of bloggers at BETT, inspired by the planning for the SLF. Well, having had a look round the excellent SLF site, and read posts and tweets from the folks who were there, and now having received the advanced notice of BETT [...]
August 24, 2007 – 9:45 pm
I’ve been talking to Chris Craft about getting involved in his amazing digital story telling project ‘Life round here’. I need to check the availability of computer rooms, and what software we’ve got but I really want to get my new SMART class involved in this fantastic international project. If you haven’t already heard about [...]
Several people have mentioned that Dan’s 4 slide contest would be a cool thing to give pupils to do. Mr H suggests the same would be true of the 8 things meme running round the blogosphere at the moment, and he asks for some other ideas. The thing that’s been bugging me for a couple [...]
A couple of years ago I remember Nick Dennis telling me about Comic Life for the Mac. At the time I mentally filed it away as something to look into when I got a spare five minutes and then proceeded to do the mental note equivilant of have it fall down the back and get [...]
So I finally did it. The blog is up. I’ve been blogging myself for ages, and ever since reading Doug’s blog, I’ve been determined to set up a blog that focusses on teaching, learning and technology. It’s taken me a while, primarily becuase there never seems to be enough hours in the day for the [...]
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