I just sent this email to the teachers in my school. I am feeling a little uncomfortable with it. What do you think? Much hype has surrounded the iPad. Overpriced. Limited in what it can do. An iPod Touch Xtra Large. All true. We...
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This morning my school were lucky enough to be visited by Barbara Stone and Westley Field from MLC School in Australia. They talked us through their use of technology. It was very impressive. Westley showed me photos of children in the playground busily chatting...
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Many thanks to the legendary Leon Cych (@eyebeams) without whom this would not be a video. PS there was no camel so it goes on longer than the usual 7 minutes. The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind. Using technology in the...
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At my school we decided some kind of benchmark was needed to measure pupil satisfaction with their education. I set about writing a teaching and learning survey. Not as easy as it first appeared. I decided on Google Forms because they are so simple...
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This is my fathers day haul. My daughter made me some truffle chocolates (yum yum – they are delicious), a super dad toblerone, a nice muffin (sensing a theme here?). A loaf of my favourite bread. Last but by no means least, a pair...
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I started writing a Moodle course for e-safety this week. I am authorised to deliver the CEOP materials but the course will be taught by another teacher as well so I cannot use these in the course. Instead I have gone for (lesson 1):...
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