FlowCharts
Flowcharts has real potential. I am sure that there will have been a lot of hard work bringing the site this far. There are some strong draw features, such as alignment, gradients and line types as well as a large …
Teaching
Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
PPT to Black
Browsing yesterday I came across a powerpoint tip for presenters, as teachers, I thought it would be very useful in the classroom. Simply, during a presentation, pressing the ‘B’ key turns the screen black, press the ‘B’ key again, and …
Quote: #1
For those of you that know me, you know I love inspiring words. I have tried very hard not to be distracted and to post quotes as blog posts, but after reading this Michelango’s quote from Garr Reynolds post, I …
ICONLook
Just a couple of points, the first is a really neat find for all students completing Unit 2 and 21 on the OCR ICT Nationals course. ICONlook is a search engine for ICONS. Even is students only use the site to find and combine the icons with …
Year 11 Leavers Assembly
Year 11 had their official leaving assembly this week, Animoto again delivered a well received mini movie (unfortunately the lack of centrally located and filed photos let us down a little.) I was impressed again with the quality of the …
Pizzled yet Pleased
I recently read about a new addition to the dictionary, ‘pizzled,’ An amalgamation of the words “pissed off” and “puzzled.” Well I was certainly pizzled this week! Not knowing what was wrong with my PC and internet connection, we finally …
Utility Belt
I am again wondering if teaching ICT is the best way to educate our learners at Hamble College and the best way to seep ICT into learning. In the past two cover lessons I have been able to introduce a …
HIAS ICT Curriculum Support
This week I attended a curriculum support day organised by the Hampshire Information and Advisory Services. I was impressed by the venue, how knowledgeable and accommodating our course leader was and incidently, lunch was too shabby either. A summary of …