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Dai manages ICT across the curriculum for an independent school in London as well as being Head of the ICT Department, teaching A Level & KS3 ICT & GCSE Computing.

Colin Goffin: This is how I work

April 11, 2013 - 11:49 | This Is How I Work

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The aim of this series of posts is to share how we work with each other, and to publish one new post per week. However, in the interest of creating a bit of momentum, here is the second post a bit early with another one already in draft for the weekend… I am Colin Goffin and this is how I work Current job: Assistant Headteacher – Standards (CPD, Self Evaluation, Recruitment etc) The Benjamin Britten High School, Suffolk Been a teacher since: 1999 Location: Norfolk Current mobile device: Iphone 5 Current computer: Macbook Pro School-issued devices: Laptop running Windows 7 – never leaves school as prefer Macbook although transferring one to the other can be a challenge. One word that … Continue reading →

Frog4OS revisited

April 11, 2013 - 08:58 | frog, Mobiles

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The updated version of Frog4 demo site was sent to me today. The update that makes sure it works on all devices. These first four images are taken on my Nexus4. It allows you to scroll around the web page now. In landscape mode as the first image implies. The other images show the page using Firefox on android. As you can see, not a lot to see. I thought we were going to get a platform that reconfigured pages for smaller screens. This does not do that. These images below are the same thing on the iPad mini. I’m pleased to report that everything works as you would expect. Except in portrait mode where you get the black screen … Continue reading →

Nick Dennis: This is how I work

April 8, 2013 - 11:52 | This Is How I Work

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I am Nick Dennis and this is how I work Nick Dennis Current job: Deputy Head at Berkhamsted School Been a teacher since: 2003 Location: Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, UK Current mobile device: I have two at the moment. I have an Android Galaxy S3 and an iPhone 5. As I do a lot of work with mobile learning I thought it would be useful to experience Android over the long term. Can’t say I love it. I also have an iPad Mini with 3G. Current computer: I have an iMac and a Chromebook (provided to me gratis by the people at Google at one of the first Chromebook events). School-issued devices: MacBook Pro 13 inch which also runs Windows 7 via … Continue reading →

This Is How I Work for Teachers

April 8, 2013 - 11:48 | This Is How I Work

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Inspired by a similar category of posts on LifeHacker (re-posted on Doug Belshaw’s excellent What I Learned This Week) and What’s In Your Bag on The Verge, I thought it might be an interesting idea to do a version of this for teachers. So, I started off with questions asked by LifeHacker and added a few more teaching specific questions that might interest readers. There is an emphasis on technology but all tips and tricks learned are welcome to share with whomever might sign up for a weekly update. For now, these posts will be a category on my blog which you can subscribe to without my other posts should you wish to. If the posts are well received it may be moved … Continue reading →

Using Social Media for research – Twitter vs. Reddit (a student experience)

April 5, 2013 - 19:36 | elearning