January 26, 2008 – 1:26 pm
I’m currently working on a series on blog posts entited ‘turning it upside down’, and as a taster, I thought I’d share this Ted Talk. I’ve currently got a backlog over over 100 Ted Talks in iTunes, and increasingly I’m harnessing the power of the network to point out the ones worth watching. This talk, [...]
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 [...]
January 15, 2008 – 1:41 pm
As I tweeted the other day, Spam Karma seems to have got a bit nuts and keeps eating legitimate comments. I haven’t got time to go digging in innards now, but rest assured if you make a comment and it doesn’t appear, I’ll be checking each night and approving anything that should have got though. [...]
January 13, 2008 – 11:04 pm
I’m happy to reveal my entry into Dan’s 2007 Review Design competition. It’s the result of a few days pondering, and more hours with photoshop than I would care to mention (or can really afford at the moment), but I’m happier with it that I was my last entry which I guess is progress. I’ll [...]
January 13, 2008 – 1:29 am
The Good The best innovations were seemingly from the marketing people, from the company that were giving out free t-shirts (you had to wear them round the stall to be entered into the prize draw) to the BBC branded oranges The best presentations were from pupils and actual teachers. Credit to Steven Heppell for the [...]
January 11, 2008 – 8:10 pm
The following is (roughly) my two minute nano presentation from Teachmeet 08. [Edited to add: You can see the actual presentation, complete with waving arms, along with the rest of the Teachmeet here. Scroll into an hour for the start, and to 2:41:55 for my 120 seconds!] Following the many complaints that many of us [...]
January 11, 2008 – 6:28 pm
Will be virtual, but in an environment where we can see in each other ‘for real’. Will be lead by include and involve students Will involve contributors from all over the world Will be sponsored by Google, and they’ll arrange for the beer to be delivered to your house Do I win the beer vouchers?!?!
January 11, 2008 – 5:59 pm
I thought I’d try and empty my head of thoughts on BETT before it gets filled with ideas from the Teachmeet08. The overwhelming feeling is that there are lots of companies peddling very similar systems, the vast majority of which are locked. While I can understand the attraction from SMT’s point of view, it seems [...]
January 7, 2008 – 12:44 pm
I’m leading an inset at Olchfa today, getting everyone up to speed on the school website and showing off some of the opportunities that new online technology offers. If you’ve arrived here from that session, why not leave a comment and say ‘hi’!
January 4, 2008 – 11:58 am
A few people have been musing lately about alternative school models, which got me thinking, if I was given a blank piece of paper and asked to redesign secondary schools what would they look like? 1. They’d still exist – I firmly believe there needs to be a physical place where educators and young people [...]
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