Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Working with a wide range of students, I have always been impressed by those students who find solutions to the own learning barriers. I have recently been signposted to www.eduapps,org. JISC provide a range of small application solutions to support …
This Friday we had the whole day to spend together as a Department. Although prior to the meeting I had requested and received agenda items, I decided we would start the day by writing our self review document for the …
‘Fools wait for a lucky day but every day is a lucky day for an industrious man.’ Little Buddha I like the theme of this Tiny Buddha quote but it does not replace my favourite. ‘He who wants milk should …
This week we launched Hamble Wiki, a Wikipedia slice selection for schools targeted around the UK National Curriculum. This slice includes about 5500 articles and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words). …
This week we introduced the concept of Laptops for Learning (L4L) to parents. I appreciate we are focusing our product range on netbooks, but we were unsure whether the term ‘netbook’ was clearly understood and that proved true as the …
Atmosphir is a 3D third-person game designer and game playing tool that is simply fantastic and with a number of developments since I last highlight it, its just even better. With our ability to now share it over the network, …
With lies you may get ahead in the world – but you can never go back. Russian proverb Borrowed from Transsiberian, a decent film, in which Ben Kingsley’s Russian Detective delivers the Russian proverb.
‘I think poetry should be controversial. It should be challenging, and make you see the world differently.’ (Carol Anne Duffy) Two things struck me about the media coverage of Carol Anne Duffy appointment as the new Poet Laureate. First was …
