Favoured Quotes
Do not confine your children to your own learning, for they were born in another time. Chinese Proverb Do we need more time?Or do we need to be more disciplined with the time we have. Kerry Johnson [qr_code_display]
Leadership
Outlining vision and leading strategy
Mobile Blog or Ipadio
Yesterday I used I iPadio, to record and automatically published my thoughts from the Eastleigh Consortium training day. I really like the functionality iPadio and to date, it’s been my mobile blogging platform of choice. When I got home, I …
Better Learning Rates for SOME…
So I created the Moodle games and set the Year 7 students at ’em. At the start of the lesson, these young students were informed that ‘we’ were embarking on a learning experiment. I explained that I had created a …
Learning, Fun, Edugaming?
Today I explored Moodle’s Games Module, at the end of the post I wanted a word that both describe ‘fun’ and ‘learning.’ A word to describe the process of edugaming (not that edugaming is a real work either) afforded by …
Imagination = Intelligence Having Fun
Edublogger and edu-design enthusiast Dean Shareski shared his daughter’s artwork and inspiration this weekend via one of my favourite Flickr image pools. I felt it was worth sharing as well. While cleaning in my daughter’s room, I noticed …
Looks Who’s Talking
Revisiting, improving and marking Yr11 coursework has been my teaching focus for the past 3 weeks with students submitting their updates via Moodle’s Dialogue block. I get notified of their submissions and feedback using the MS WORD review features. I …
High Performers: Secrets of Successful Schools
I was first introduced to the educational philosophy of Alistair Smith when training to be an FA Tutor. Alite had been selected as an Associate partner for the The FA Learning Psychology for Soccer programme and led the Tutor Training …