Simple Ideas Shared
I’ll treat my username and password like my toothbrush – I will not share it, nor will I try to use any other person’s username and password. (Ivan Langton via Twitter) I think that is how I will share the …
Reflections
Doers
Inspiration can come from many different places. How about combining Honda commercials and Powerpoint presentations? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmh_H0Nyg4g] Well I saw this two minute, 10 second animated commercial, created by Ben Everitt, Sophie Bodoh and creatively directed by Tony Davidson, Kim Papworth …
Takeaway from Hampshire VLE Day
First I enjoyed the day, meeting with colleagues and sharing information. This has been extended this evening with a few Twitter connections too (mcntmgr, Lara_Young, alcrooks for example). I also made a couple of email colleagues 3D and was able …
Opening and Closing Doors
I scheduled this post for one year after it was written? Has much changed? Surprisingly, aged 33, I am about to embark on my first significant career change. All my previous decisions focused on accepting educational opportunities rather than purposeful …
'The things we don't know, we don't know.'
Expected difficulties can be managed. In terms of the curriculum; new staff, a new KS2 curriculum, a new Unit of work for Year 9s, in their new sets. A revised unit of work (well, almost) for Yr 10s and finally, …
Summer Roundup
Well I never managed to post this Summer roundup! This is a retrospective posting…. It has been a very busy summer, some difficulties were expected and some managed. Of course, many unexpected! We have had some real difficulties with the …
AuthorStream
So today we took the work the students created in class and uploaded a range to AuthorStream. The motivation to get their work on the site was impression. I also learnt a few teaching points for E(ngage)-Learning and was left …
What Interest Students
Friday afternoon, two talented, socialable and engaging male students choose to disengage from class. It would be easy to excuse their behaviour as “last lesson of the weekitis” or to attribute their behavious to the slightly dull topic of databases or to blame the situation that …