Susan Scott on listening skills
There is so much more to listen to than words, listen to the whole person. Susan Scott – Fierce Conversations.
Teaching
Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
School ICT lessons a ‘turn-off’
We are now watching the enthusiasm of the next generation waste away through poorly conceived courses and syllabuses. Professor Steve Furber Royal Society The article highlighted Steve Furbers quote and as a former ICT teacher, I am not going to disagree …
iPhone Icon
I am sure that the students enthusiasm for all thinks ‘i’ extend to the use of iPhone icons. Given the chance, I am sure students would love to use Apple icons in their Unit 4, Multimedia Products. Now they can. Over …
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 …
White Screen of Death
Sorry to anyone that tried to find this blog over the past few days only to find a white screen. If you bothered to revisit, thank you. Also, a sincere thank you to @Moodledan for providing the expert ‘know how’ to …
ICT is not IT
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 …
Lipdub Completed
It took us just over an hour to video 3 full length ‘takes’ and then a further hour or so to convert the files, edit the titles, add the soundtrack before uploading to Youtube. The students were amazingly patient as we waited …
Year 3000
Back in November I first wrote about my aspirations to create a secondary school class lip dub. I am not sure a Year 9 class is the best place to start, but they are a great bunch of hard working …