Google Timeline
I have been wanting to find a really good reason to use Google Timelines in my lessons for quite some time now, but rarely do I get the opportunity to take a chronological review of a topic or query. English …
English
Reflections from within the English classroom
Slumdog Camera Angles
Slumdog Pythagoras – Minimally Invasive Education was posted on December 11, 2010 by Mr Stucke. Beaten to punch, humbled into action, on Sunday evening I penned a second Sugata Mitra teaching experiment. I am not planning to cover the topic …
Grade Less. Assess More.
If you are in education and you have not yet seen, watched, heard or read any of Prof Dylan Williams work then get over to the SSAT National Conference website and watch his keynote. Following the conference my RSS feed …
Curriculum Efficiencies
Step 1 Take a teacher with a passion for ICT add it to a teacher with a passion for English. Leave them to discuss the curriculum for 30 minutes to identify common areas and then ask them to be ‘creative.’ …
Writing Creatively
There is a lesson in there somewhere or #TILTS was a tag I used quite a lot last year when trying to create and conceive small units of work around interactive media or ICT tools. Animoto, the fantastic webware tool …
Get ’em Writing in Under 60s with OneWord
Oneword is a quick fire web tool is quick, simple and self-explanatory. You will see one word at the top of the screen and a timing running at the bottom. Click ‘Go’ and you have sixty seconds to write about …
Webpages, Moodle’s Ugly Ducklings?
Moodle resources are rarely inspirational. Barely inspirational, if anything, resources and standard files are frequently uploaded to fill course space. You said we needed to add content, I added content. As a result, resources are rarely discussed …
Where is ‘There.’
At the entrance to the school reception was a bold red background upon which the schools name was proudly presented. We had arrived at Redbridge Community School. We were met by the Headteacher, Lindy Barclay, and joined in her office …