Professional learning and training
The week I travelled to Manchester to the attend the Microsoft Innovative Education Forum (IEF). In spite of the long journey and poor driving conditions, I highly recommend you bookmark next years event in your diary. Let me explain why. …
Registration was simple and #NC10 customary recycled mini ‘potato’ gift sack gratefully received it I made my way over to Prof Dylan Williams presentation. [blackbirdpie id=”7383270597595136″] You can’t use 21st skills without a good dose of 19th century content. Dylan …
First, where is the hashtag key on a mac keyboard? ALT AND 3 together, come on. This is my 3rd Annual National Conference. To date, I have found the conference invigorating, a real cerebral workout. Every year I get to …
How do we get “There…” If we don’t know where it is? And we haven’t yet agreed on what ‘there ‘looks like? (We, being me, the Head of English and the department). Very soon into accepting my new role at …
One generation plants the trees, and another gets the shade. Back on the VLE again I am afraid. I am busy writing interactive resources and setting extended learning tasks for the ‘Romeo and Juliet’ section on the VLE. Our team have been slow to adopt …
To give the book its full title ‘The New Leaders – Transforming the art of leadership into the science of results’ is rather grand and contribute little. I ordered the book after stumbling upon Daniel Goleman’s research here and there and I …
Hamble Community Sports College are partnering with Vital to champion IT Support Services within schools. Today Jon Dyas, Programme Manager for Vital emailed me an opportunity for IT Support staff, that you or your colleagues may wish to take advantage …
We can throw stones, complain about them, stumble on them, climb over them, or build with them. Williams Arthur Ward I felt this quote was rather pertinent. Technology fails. The Achilles heel of almost all technology advocates is that we …
