HTML5
Just to say I am curious as to where HTML5 might take our students learning, my teaching. Microsoft have teamed up with the developers of Contre Jour to bring the popular game iOS game to the Web with HTML5. It is available …
Teaching
Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Thinking outside of the box
Ideas are spinning out of this fantastic paper toy modelling link www.papertoysart.com/. I picked up on it because the featured toy robot eponymous with Machinarium, an enchanting point and click puzzle adventure game, available for download and also on the iOS platform. The game …
Choices
It is our choices that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. J.K. Rowling Now that’s quotes seem in tune with the twitter chat tonight and far more in tune than many X factor contestants. [qr_code_display]
Stretch, a grow mind set
This morning I responded to @HuntingEnglish when he retweet a Guy Claxton comment. Ability is not fixed, it is elastic, and your environment either stretches it or not. Guy Claxton Like my colleague I believe in a growth mind set. In …
Here, I….. Go.
Yesterday, at the SLW technology conference, the dinamic duo of Oliver Quinlan and Pete Yeoman opened the conference. As part of that opening presentation they showed a short headcam video of a young girl commentating on her first 60m ski …
More Quest at #SLWTC
Another opportunity to work with Alex Warren (@alexwarren) and introduce teachers to Quest at the #swltc technology conference! There is only so much you can share in one session, so I have uploaded the presentation, would recommend you visit textadventures.co.uk/ and …
Teaching Hero’s
Very quickly Eteach.com, the education job board, together with a talented group of sixth formers from St Wilfrid’s School, Crawley, have created a campaign to celebrate teachers’ hard work. Every school has its ‘Teaching Heroes’ – and it really does only take …
Inanimate Alice
Quite some while ago I highlighted a piece of interactive fiction, well more transmedia really, call Inanimate Alice. It is a narrative set in a technology saturated near future, telling the story of a young girl, merging text with animation, videos, …