Google Moderator
I really like the concept of Google Moderator but have yet to use it in one of my lessons….. but I do think there is real potential. Today I read that following President Obama address about the recent oil spill, …
In Character
Tonight I am thinking more and more about how to encourage students to write. On the list for next year is WordPress accounts for all students and Depts. Also, I have been thinking more about the use of ‘in character,’ …
Screencast
For as long as I have been a ICT tecaher, I have been looking experimenting with screencasting. It started with creating screencasts to support learning and this task left a lasting impression. Screencasts are very simple in practice, but actually …
SSAT Achievement Show
I would just like to thank the SSAT for inviting Hamble Community Sports College Digital Leaders to present at the Achievement Show. The students delivered a Pecha Kucha presentation of their experience of being a Digital Leader at our school. With …
GTP to NQT (PGCE)
I am very pleased proud pleased to announce that Liam Nicol, our GTP student, successfully completed his formal assessment with Reading University. This was my first experience of being a GTP mentor, having mentored PGCE students in both PE and ICT previously, and I just wanted to share a …
PDF to Text
Here is a fairly common question with a simple answer. Google Docs will now extract text from images free. This new feature has only recently gone live but may have arrived just in time to help staff ploughing through and restructuring new …
Movie Maker or Just a Frozen Project File?
I am pretty sure that full featured online video editing is not far away? Youtube have just announced that you can now ‘Edit in the Cloud‘ and thats fun, but its also limited and perhaps ‘rough around the edges’ but …