Folding Story
This morning we are exploring Folding Story with Year 10 English Functional Skills students. After a converted effort on writing skills, I felt that the creativity offered by Folding Story would be a fun and a neat end to that …
creativity
Fedex Day or Google Time
Ask yourself, is there one thing I can do, tomorrow or next week, to inject some more autonomy, to provide a little space for non-commissioned work (in your classroom or your organisation). Daniel Pink It is an old article, but …
Recommended Post
I often find reading Ewan McIntosh blog leaves me with plenty to consider. Today he provided coverage of John West-Burnham presentation at the Partners in Excellence Worldwide Innovative Education Forum. It is a very worthwhile read and there is no …
Webpages, Moodle’s Ugly Ducklings?
Moodle resources are rarely inspirational. Barely inspirational, if anything, resources and standard files are frequently uploaded to fill course space. You said we needed to add content, I added content. As a result, resources are rarely discussed …
SSAT Conference Day 1
It’s day one of the SSAT conference. The 3000 delegates. Impressive venue and the first two speakers set an enquiring tone. Sir Dexter Hutt, only introduced the conference but I felt that there was more I could gleaned from his …
Disappointed I Didnt Think of it
I was very impressed by the ease and functionality of Wordle, however I was disappointed that I did come up with this idea on how to use Wordle. The idea to extend the use of tag clouds to analyze long …
Wordle
This is rather neat, I must remember to send it onto Seb Schmoller. It was in his presentation that I first saw a word cloud use to presentation effect. Wordle is an online tool which can read your del.icio.us lines, …
Need to Change Your Mood
After another busy week of planning, I have to admit I am finding it tough to keep up. Planning, staffing, teaching and budgeting. I have been trying to organise the KS3 curriculum to the best of my abilities, even though …