How good is a school?
Stepping in for our Principal last week I picked out a few leader comments that struck a chord. How good is a school? How good are your middle leaders? On making judgements about learning and teaching; I am trying to …
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 …
Data man
Learning is not a place, it’s an activity. – Andreas Schleicher. So, an interest TED post, let’s hope we can watch the talk. You can’t copy and paste education systems wholesale, but there are a range of shared factors,” Scheicher …
One to ponder
A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd. – Max Lucado [qr_code_display]
IF is a big word – it’s just literature
Why should IF be considered by English Departments? Many thanks to the delegates in the workshops at #CASWales12 for really exploring this question with me, it was a topic of debate in both sessions. The simple answer is that it …
Brandon G was just on TV!
OMG! I just surfed to find the Brandon Generator on during the break on Channel 4. The same BG we have been exploring and writing for in class! Get 7a3! The film is an extension of Microsoft’s ‘Beauty of The …
Image Spike
ImageSpike is a photo web design application that helps turn your static images into rich interactive media experiences that can be shared and measured. ImageSpike lets you overlay hotspots, with social, collaborative and interactive capabilities. Once you have tagged photo it is yours to share, embed or publish. Then, through a …
Thinking IF and language
Now, I know, you know, that I know, that IF has considerable educational potential but unless I leave my job and pursue the research full time I am going to find it tough get beyond the anecdotal evidence which I could …