Horror Ball ’12
Another fantastic event, of course, the student performances and costumes were also a real highlight.
#Success
Student, colleague or personal successes.
A jar of golf balls and two cups of coffee
Paul Benson dropped me a very kind tweet and email to say thank you for the CI Writing page. The Challenge and Inspire page is collection of stories, an odd mix of coaching, philosophy and life fables I have bumped into …
Exploring War Horse with 7a2
Again, with my parallel group we explored themes with ThinkLink (Chapters 7, 8 and 9). This time, the class clearly defined the themes, and with clustered a group of blue theme hexagon to separate out the themes more effectively. This …
War Horse – themes of friendship 7b2
Today we used the very versatile thinklink as a recording tool to highlight the themes of friendship that students could recall from reading chapters 1-6 from War Horse. We continued to use the same canvas as a back channel for …
Here, I….. Go.
Yesterday, at the SLW technology conference, the dinamic duo of Oliver Quinlan and Pete Yeoman opened the conference. As part of that opening presentation they showed a short headcam video of a young girl commentating on her first 60m ski …
Funny Money
I am a big fan of Classdojo – it is my goto behaviour management tool but that doesn’t restrain my magpie tendencies when good ideas cross my eye-line. Two colleagues were talking ‘business studies’ and how to encourage students to …
Proving pupil progress with Triptico
This week I used a simple Triptico background and asked students to show their confidence on our latest topic. At the start of the lesson the students scattered their names around the middle, well, it was our third lesson. At …
Wikipedia to e-book
This is a great mash for iBooks, wikipedia and epub formats. So, basically, you can now export a selection of Wikipedia pages as EPUBs which is a much better format for reading offline, on the go, on mobile phones, ebook readers …