Microsoft in education
This post was started on day 2 of BETT and finished on the train on the way home from BETT. I wanted a little time for my thoughts to ‘brew,’ to see if I held the same view a day of …
Time to think this one over
If you wouldn’t wake up early to do it, you probably shouldn’t stay up late to do it. Don’t stay up past your normal bedtime to do something that you wouldn’t be willing to wake up earlier than your normal …
Best of BETT
There seems to be an awful lot robotics on show here at BETT – from Lego to mechanics to these programmable funky fellas. Aldebaran Robotics Add to that, whole bunch of hardware (screens in particular, whiteboards a plenty), a …
BETT Show Day #1
Here we are at the start of day 2 reflecting on day 1. The Learn Live theatre was packed for BYOD, rammed for David Roger’s @davidErogers guerrilla geography and smiling warmly as Charlotte Beckhurst demonstrated how her Y1 primary class had …
iSAMS – first impressions
December was a significant month at The Wellington Academy. The decision had been made to reconstruct our curriculum timetable and move to a new Management Information System. Fulfilling one of these tasks alone, would have been challenging enough, but undertaking …
Inspiration at the station
On arriving at the Excel Arena yesterday I took this photograph on the way in. Not a bad way to start your lesson. It’s part of the HP branding so once inside the BETT show I found the HP stand …
CPD for peanuts
The Teaching, Learning and Assessment Conference or TLAB13 is fast approaching, Saturday 16th March 2013. As everyone is contributing their effort gratis the cost of the event is staggeringly low, just £40. With three keynotes and three workshops you are …
Explaining Upper, Middle and Lower Bands
We are in the process of preparing all the schools data ready for analysis. It is not a glib comment. We really are setting up from a meagre starting point. Burning the candle at both ends. We are in the …