Student, colleague or personal successes.
Moving to the English Department this academic year I was looking for a range of English learning activities, spelling tools and edugames to provide transition activities at the start or end of the lesson. This ‘need’ brought me back to …
Life is curly. Don’t try to straighten it out. Follow my first meeting with as middle leader, as a senior leader I was able to use some of the basic ideas and tips I had highlighted from my summer reading …
Just another reason why the skill of learning, unlearning, and relearning is so important in this fast pace digital world. Jeff Utecht We need to rethink how we teach search skills to kids We need to reteach search skills to …
I do not often post simple resources but in this instance, its worth while. ‘It’s a Book’ is simply brilliant. Book-loving ape (teacher) and a tech-savvy donkey (student) demonstrate just how different teachers and students can be, yet given the …
Who? The ALT are ‘a professional and scholarly association which seeks to bring together all those with an interest in the use of learning technology.’ So that’s me, you (you are reading this post after all) and the colleagues we …
The SSATs opening question (above) was then expanded to include a review of the use of social media technologies In the classroom For school management and parental engagement For professional development We were advised to write ‘a number of concise …
Last week @SSAT put out a call for opinions, contributions to ‘Should teachers tweet? Social media and education.’ With the help of Maureen Bowes (of People Intelligence) I had already started to organise my thoughts about Twitter in a post …
‘I just don’t get it?! Why would you want to… tweet! Look, I will give it a go for a few days and I will see how I get on. No promises mind. I am no internet champion you know …
