#8 5 Minute Meals for ICT
Topic or Tool: Creative Common Images on a BIG scale. The reason for the post is the result of two unique events. During a recent school visit I saw an example of a block poster / rasterbator on the wall …
Curriculum
Curriculum design and deployment
Forgotten Gems
‘You can only improve your teaching by changing it.’ CPD in a can. That is how I referenced Geoff Petty’s website the teacherstoolbox. This is the first place I came across Hattie, across PAR and someone with an endearing passion …
Carni'vle'
No its not a typo, but an idea, a concept to draw teaching and teachers onto the vle with a collective purpose. Over a beer, Mark Hellen helped me conceive a whole school teaching project that might give the vle …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Getting Ready for Countdown
This week we introduced the Digital Leaders to their loan Toshiba NB100’s and Schoogle (our new Moodle VLE). The DLs will have a significant impact on the up take of technology at Hamble College and will steer our decisions. Although …
Presentations
Powerpoint should be used for prestentations and word shuld be used for documents. Rarely should the two be combined. The only thing worse than a Powerpoint full of words is a presenter that reads them to the audience. Garr Reynolds