Classdojo App
For those of you that occasionally drop by, you will know that I am a big fan of Classdojo. I’m not the only one, thousands of teachers worldwide have stumbled across this fantastic and free behaviour management tool and use it …
Teaching
Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Marking books, assessments and mistakes
I have been marking this morning. Marking students work always teaches me something about my teaching, something about my students, and almost always leaves me mulling over the process and relationships involved learning and teaching. Having started the class with ‘Who …
Leadership focused
You can do anything but not everything. David Allen Thinking about this David Allen quote and my role next year I know I will need to be acutely focused. Time is limited. [qr_code_display]
A Different Outlook
I understand that all your important life experience correspondences are connected to ‘that’ email address. Its flooded with spam, but your bare with it. It is most likely a sixteen something email complete with a nickname, an underscore and a favourite number (football_nut24@hotmail.com). …
Books have a big future
Books have a big future. Readmill’s tagline. Readmill are a startup, that popped up on the BBC’s Click programme, who where showcase the Berlin startup scene. Their idea is simple, social reading or ‘breathing, right now book club.’ My first …
Greenfoot – Why Maths and Programming?
In his first post Neil Brown described the sinepost, a blog about applying maths in computer games to solve real problems. It turns out that Ofsted would quite like to see more problem-solving in maths too. In the very best schools, all lessons …
Live web page plugin
LiveWeb, and officetimeline are free download plugins for Powerpoint. There are quite a few more, (plex / xpadder) but these two plugins I use quite regularly. Liveweb simple lets you insert a live website into your presentation, avoiding having to close the presentation and use …
Lesson Plans, Maps, Journeys
A rather busy week has meant I was sifting through a ladened Google Reader. For the most part it is a headline filtering although I find myself clicking through, digging deeper into more posts these days. This weekend a ‘lesson …