Oversight
This morning on the way to work, only a short journey, I listened to edtechtalk weekly as I usually do most monday mornings. Its only a 15 minute drive, if that, so I tend to listen to the podcast / …
ICT Tools for Future Teachers Workshop
This past weekend I accepted an invitation to attend an ICT CPD, commissioned by BECTA and hosted by Marilyn Leask at Brunel University (Prof of Education). Described as a ‘workshop reviewing what ICT tools teachers find effective now, and what …
SSAT Strategies for Developing PL & New Technologies
Looking forward to tomorrows CPD. I am not 100% sure what to expect but I am looking forward to the day and will post my reflections afterwards….. So here they are…. John Davitt was both informative and thought provoking with …
How Best Schools Beat the Odds
This BBC article sums up what good schools are all about. For sure there is no magic recipe and many questions left unanswered by the OFSTED report but the chief characteristics of the schools’ success are what you would expect, …
SIMS Learning Gateway
Hamble College are one of the pilot schools for the Hampsire SIMS Learning Gateway (SLG) project. In all honesty, it could be the straw that broke the camels bac but I did not think it was something we could miss …
Chris Lehmann – Look up his Keynotes
Put a good person in a bad system, and the system too often wins – Chris Lehmann Re-heard this quote watching a keynote courtesy of Jeff Utect on Ustream. This made me think about the previous opportunities to listen to …
Power to the Poster
Take just 5 minutes to find just one poster to share with your students. All the hard/creative work has been done for you, what is your excuse now? Power to the Poster is a website that shares a ready supply …
Superhero
There, in the mists of Twitter a simple snipurl. Nothing that would catch your attention, but for the simple phrase ‘Superhep Avatar generator.’ An urge, to click, to investigate and discover…… click Gender, face, upper/lower body, accessorised and with abilities …