I have attended TWO teachmeet’s this evening. Yes, two. Not physically but virtually. Both online. And they have formed part of the best Continuing Professional Development I have had the pleasure to attend. If you don’t know what a teachmeet is then watch this video first. I had two choices. Both had a line up […]
Yes, it’s a classic cliché and one which thefreedictionary describes as
You yourself should do the things you advise other people to do
So that’s why I’m advising you, yes you, to do the same. Practice what you preach. If you show the children in your class photographs then go one step further and show them the photographs […]
Here’s a video I put together showing ants working together. I think it would be a good resource for the KS1 topic of Minibeasts. Let me know what you think and if you need the photos you can find them on my flickr page. Audio from Garageband, iLife’09 Subscribe to the comments for this post? Share this on […]
I’ve come across many free online tools and many free installable tools in my teaching career. Some are uninstalled as soon as possible, others are used for a while then lie dormant. Photo Story3 is neither of those. It is simply brilliant and let me show you why. I demonstrated this tool to my class yesterday […]
The following scribd document contains the material I will be handing out to my colleagues as part of their Fronter training that I am providing in school. Please feel free to use the material as you wish and if it is helpful do let me know.
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I was supposed to hold the second ‘Are you up to IcT?’ session in my school today but unfortunately other matters arose. However, I am presenting the video I was going to show. It’s more of a ‘look what you can do with delicious’ rather than a ‘how to’ guide. I hope it’s useful to […]
This afternoon I began ‘Are you up to IcT?’ staff training in my school and the reaction I received was positive. I demonstrated Sqworl and bit.ly to teachers from Early years to KS2 and they all found the tools useful. So much so that later that afternoon two staff registered with sqworl and created their […]
As part of my ‘Are you up to IcT?‘ CPD material for teachers in my school I will be creating short video demonstrations of tech tools for classroom use; here’s a demo of Sqworl and how you could use it as part of your ICT toolkit. Here’s a sqworl site I made earlier using bookmarks from […]
Over the past couple of weeks I have been collecting some great sites for classroom displays. Ever since the furor surrounding Sparklebox began a few months back, teachers like myself have been clambering around searching for sites that have as vast a collection of great displays that Sparklebox has but without any ‘headline news’ baggage […]
As an ICT Coordinator in my school one of my responsibilities is to ensure that the staff, as well as the children, are using technology effectively and are up to date with new practices and tools. To achieve this I have put together a 12 week course that should go some length to addressing this. […]
