Leadership focused
You can do anything but not everything. David Allen Thinking about this David Allen quote and my role next year I know I will need to be acutely focused. Time is limited. [qr_code_display]
Teaching
Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
A Different Outlook
I understand that all your important life experience correspondences are connected to ‘that’ email address. Its flooded with spam, but your bare with it. It is most likely a sixteen something email complete with a nickname, an underscore and a favourite number (football_nut24@hotmail.com). …
Books have a big future
Books have a big future. Readmill’s tagline. Readmill are a startup, that popped up on the BBC’s Click programme, who where showcase the Berlin startup scene. Their idea is simple, social reading or ‘breathing, right now book club.’ My first …
Greenfoot – Why Maths and Programming?
In his first post Neil Brown described the sinepost, a blog about applying maths in computer games to solve real problems. It turns out that Ofsted would quite like to see more problem-solving in maths too. In the very best schools, all lessons …
Live web page plugin
LiveWeb, and officetimeline are free download plugins for Powerpoint. There are quite a few more, (plex / xpadder) but these two plugins I use quite regularly. Liveweb simple lets you insert a live website into your presentation, avoiding having to close the presentation and use …
Lesson Plans, Maps, Journeys
A rather busy week has meant I was sifting through a ladened Google Reader. For the most part it is a headline filtering although I find myself clicking through, digging deeper into more posts these days. This weekend a ‘lesson …
Animation at a STEM Day
I am a big fan of animation work, on so many levels; the creativity, the storyboarding and sequencing, refining and adapting, to name the first few that spring to mind and I was really pleased to see an animation session …
Wellington Academy Visioning Day
Wellington Academy Visioning Day – it was a real privilege to facilitate an ICT visioning day with colleagues from Wellington Academy, reinventing, or at least repackaging, ICT under an Enterprise banner. Given a ‘blue sky canvas, we framed with day with three …