Curriculum design and deployment
This post started out as ‘Important and Urgent then Do It Part 2.’ It was reviewing the decision making process within the ICT Department and IT Services. However, as it was neither Important nor Urgent, time passed and a lot of revisions …
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi How do we as teachers respond to incorrect answers? I like the % method, but there are others…. Well, that is 70% correct …
Having attended and presented at my first Teach Meet recently, I was surprised by the effort I put into my 7 minute presentation. Considering 2 minutes was allocated to showcasing student Xtranormal creations, I spent nearly 4 hours on the presentation. Meantime …
Who gets my attention this evening? Reading about the demise of Becta or preparing for Ofsted? The immediate job at hand, Ofsted inspection tomorrow, or the immediate future of iCT, Becta? Ofsted have been expected for 3-4 weeks now but …
I am sure you have come across the decision making matrix / Covey’s quadrants in one form or another. For 3 years, whilst working at Tauntons College, I faced a copy the matrix when sitting at my desk, in an …
Having trialled Office 2010, there were some very nice features in there, but I would have to say that I probably got the most professional benefit from Outlook 2010. Question is, having only moved to Office 2007 this year, are …
European Director of Google’s online sales John Herlihy outlined that Google is mostly oriented towards mobile devices, claiming they’ll become more important than desktop PCs within 3 yrs. Meanwhile, we are moving to the cloud or so suggest / implies Steve Balmer with these are broad views on …
Each Monday I teach 26/31 students from a middle band Yr 10 Class in the morning. In the afternoon, I teach 17 of the original 26 students, plus a further 7 new students. (Finally on Wednesday morning, I teach a …
