Reflections of a leader
Reflections on leadership, teaching, learning, assessment and the wider education of young people
Mobile Blog or Ipadio
Yesterday I used I iPadio, to record and automatically published my thoughts from the Eastleigh Consortium training day. I really like the functionality iPadio and to date, it’s been my mobile blogging platform of choice. When I got home, I …
Better Learning Rates for SOME…
So I created the Moodle games and set the Year 7 students at ’em. At the start of the lesson, these young students were informed that ‘we’ were embarking on a learning experiment. I explained that I had created a …
Learning, Fun, Edugaming?
Today I explored Moodle’s Games Module, at the end of the post I wanted a word that both describe ‘fun’ and ‘learning.’ A word to describe the process of edugaming (not that edugaming is a real work either) afforded by …
Imagination = Intelligence Having Fun
Edublogger and edu-design enthusiast Dean Shareski shared his daughter’s artwork and inspiration this weekend via one of my favourite Flickr image pools. I felt it was worth sharing as well. While cleaning in my daughter’s room, I noticed …
Looks Who’s Talking
Revisiting, improving and marking Yr11 coursework has been my teaching focus for the past 3 weeks with students submitting their updates via Moodle’s Dialogue block. I get notified of their submissions and feedback using the MS WORD review features. I …
MS WORD Tip
Having supported students typing up coursework, I was a little surprised at the lengths they went to, to edit their documents. Here are the most common editing tips I shared with them. Do you have any to add? CTRL ENTER – new …