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 [...]
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