An Open Source Fairytale
So here is the ups and downs of Open Source. After a lot of work, we have a great looking theme and a Moodle 1.95 to install. 1.95 offers a really amazing gradebook features and I know it will have …
Digital Learning
Technology, teaching and teachnology
Seb Schmoller has Ruined my Wife's Weekend
I urge you to read and contribute to Seb Schmollers most recent article ‘What would be the single most effective thing government could do to drive its digital inclusion agenda?‘ Seb, is incredibly well informed, well read and modest. I …
Wiki Slice
This week we launched Hamble Wiki, a Wikipedia slice selection for schools targeted around the UK National Curriculum. This slice includes about 5500 articles and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words). …
IM Not 100% Convinced
I have been using Twitter for well over two years now and I get so much back from my network, thank you everyone, so quickly and will real richness. However at Hamble, I find that our communication systems; briefing, telephone, …
Parents Conference for L4L
This week we introduced the concept of Laptops for Learning (L4L) to parents. I appreciate we are focusing our product range on netbooks, but we were unsure whether the term ‘netbook’ was clearly understood and that proved true as the …
Gl.AM it up
Its a neat way to share a list of websites with students. Its social bookmarking meets tinyurl. Here is my gl.am for Unit 4 of the OCR Nationals, sites to help students deal with creating a housestyle, http://gl.am/hK7Et. Simply create …
Connected Network Managers
I have been very lucky to have been able to call upon some very resourceful Network Managers, in a range of school setting, to bounce ideas off. When our new ‘Moodle’ guy joined us, he brought all the goodness from …
#BGT Powering Down and Thinking Up
I had previously read a number of professional online colleagues talk of ‘powering down,’ short breaks away from their hyperlinked conversations, turning off their technology and recharging conscientiously. Upon their return they voiced the value of this disconnection and I …