Question rations
Hi Krisitan, I am currently putting something together about questioning in the classroom for all staff…. the other day in the library, I saw you use a technique where they were only allowed to ask 2 questions all lesson. Would …
#Success
Student, colleague or personal successes.
Get ’em thinking #1
It started with a random conversation about thunks with @JOHNSAYERS. An flurry of thunk style questions and prompts followed. There is of course the thunks website but the call for some quirky questions was also too much to resist. @kristianstill love that!! …
Dystopian English
Look hands up, before I started this post apocalyptic, dystopian creative writing gig to get my lacklustre students writing, I didn’t even know what ‘dystopian’ meant, I have @jamesmichie to thank for that. It starts with the hot (if ageing) …
Stars and bars – ALT impact
This afternoon I received an email about the ‘practicalities and cost’ of the ATL ‘stars and bars’ reward system. If I am honest, the main expense is staff time. Every cycle our staff enter 2000+ grades, that is a significant staff investment …
Timelines made easy
It’s back, and its better than before. Office Timeline 2012 is the quick, intuitive timeline plugin for Powerpoint. I first used it when preparing a whole project presentation, after all every whole school project presentation deserves a timeline right? In just a …
Big data display
Do not get angry with me about the photo. It is not purposefully far away, though not purposefully grainey. At least I do not have to apply a blurring filter. Confidentiality you understand. It is my big data display, my big …
On the radar
Today I received an email from the SSAT asking if I would consider writing a ‘series of regular contributions,’ for SSAT English and Literacy radar. Okay, it might not be my English specialist knowledge that led to the invitation, however I …
Circuits in Chrome
Now I am not a circuits geek, nor a science teacher but for the most part, I know education friendly webware when I see it. Circuits.io is an in-your-browser (okay Chrome fully tested but its working pretty well in IE9) circuit design tool, …