Yesterday, at the SLW technology conference, the dinamic duo of Oliver Quinlan and Pete Yeoman opened the conference. As part of that opening presentation they showed a short headcam video of a young girl commentating on her first 60m ski …
Another opportunity to work with Alex Warren (@alexwarren) and introduce teachers to Quest at the #swltc technology conference! There is only so much you can share in one session, so I have uploaded the presentation, would recommend you visit textadventures.co.uk/ and …
Very quickly Eteach.com, the education job board, together with a talented group of sixth formers from St Wilfrid’s School, Crawley, have created a campaign to celebrate teachers’ hard work. Every school has its ‘Teaching Heroes’ – and it really does only take …
Quite some while ago I highlighted a piece of interactive fiction, well more transmedia really, call Inanimate Alice. It is a narrative set in a technology saturated near future, telling the story of a young girl, merging text with animation, videos, …
Unvalidated, validated and final data – another lesson learnt. August the results are in. Sept is a period of investigations and re-mark requests. October each school has the opportunity to check its data (ASCL Leadership of Data strongly recommended we …
At our school we use the very effective Parents Evening System. In addition to the booking facility, the system collects parent and carer email and contact number. Transferring this information back to SIMs was not so simple, so I contacted …
Having struggled with transition matrices over the summer holidays I attended the ASCL Leadership of Data Conference. Again, TMs were commonly referenced, if not universally understood. TMs were this weekends learning project. So, what are TMs? A transition matrix is a …
I am a big fan of Classdojo – it is my goto behaviour management tool but that doesn’t restrain my magpie tendencies when good ideas cross my eye-line. Two colleagues were talking ‘business studies’ and how to encourage students to …
