Technology, teaching and teachnology
Today students at Hamble College are sitting preliminary Maths exams, in the old-fashioned pen and paper way. Back in May I read about Norwegian 16-19 year-olds trying out the laptop-based exams systems and yesterday I read about Danish students being given access to …
I sometimes write the basis of an article and leave it as a draft. I then revisit the article and review my original reflections. Interesting, more often than not I prove myself wrong. This article on Moodle learning was not …
In my GTP meeting today I was reminded of a few tools I have not used for a while. Online timers as quick easy ways to keep lessons on track, to maintain the much aligned ‘pace.’ E.gg Timer, Online Stopwatch and desktop …
Thanks to my great Digital Leaders and colleague, we now have a zipped version of Powder Toy. I will put it on our Moodle so if you want a copy, you can downloaded it from there. Check out the DMGC …
We have been fully booked every lunchtime this week. Year 7 boys hurtling across the playground, storming the stairway, one hand clutching the handle of a barely used rucksack, the other hand, a half eaten sandwich. But I just don’t get the attraction …
Arrived at the Marriot Meon Valley Hotel at 4:30 fully loaded on Nurofen to help suppress the flu. I was there in body if not in spirit. The warm autumn evening and rural setting immediately raised my expectations. Thoughtful, light snacks as …
Gideon does not know it yet, but this post is for him. His desktop is impressively muddled. Bring forward the offical release of Fences, a very simple desktop icon organizer. Fences is a freeware application, Windows only. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSTnuRSKymw]
I was reading ’16 Ways To Win £25k And Change Informal Learning In The UK’ on Ewan McIntosh’s blog and stopped to consider our learning responsibilities. It does frustrate me that we have such wonderful IT services here at Hamble College and …
