Adobe Rome #fail and #success
So the 60 minute challenge was game on, in the bag, job done, until I tried to add a few icons, to one same section, on different layers, of the same page. Do you catch my drift? No? With 10 …
#Fail
My own strategies, ideas, plans, suggestions policies that didnt make the grade and possibly those put forward by colleagues, media, twitter and more.
Project Rome?
Again my RSS reader comes up trumps, this time with Adobe Project Rome. So what is it? And, Did it take longer than a day to build? Project ROME is an all-in-one content creation and publishing application that lets virtually …
Championing the Gradebook
I have been working with Moodle gradebook for the past half term. The process of moving students over to online submission has not been without its issues. I include a summary of the challenges I have encountered and the measures …
Spelling Tests
Now this is as good as it gets this week. Spelling tests. With the aim of keeping it all within the VLE, of course. In our case Moodle. I really like the look and feel of Microsoft Education Labs flashcards. …
Who? What? Why? When?
Who? The ALT are ‘a professional and scholarly association which seeks to bring together all those with an interest in the use of learning technology.’ So that’s me, you (you are reading this post after all) and the colleagues we …
Should teachers tweet? Social media and education.
The SSATs opening question (above) was then expanded to include a review of the use of social media technologies In the classroom For school management and parental engagement For professional development We were advised to write ‘a number of concise …
Adding Struggle to Learning
I am very proud of myself this morning. After 6 days of perservence, forum reading and trial and error learning, I finally managed to get a new experimental Delicious (online bookmarking) feature to work – blog posting. Basically information stored in your Delicious …
Education Like Flying
Going to school now is like being in an airplane. You sit down. You have to put all of your trust and confidence in somebody at the front you don’t really know and turn off all your electronic devices. Martin Bean Let provides you with …