Frog calls it’s conference the ‘National Learning Platform Conference’. That is daft. There are many other learning platforms. Are there not rules against misrepresenting the facts in marketing material? If any Froggers are reading this, please do not despair at my critical tone. I am aiming to make Frog win at my school. To do
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So, for me this means I need to lead Frog. Today I am going to the Frogtrade conference to discover some work that actually impresses me beyond the shiny visuals Frog delivers better than Moodle. Aiming to be brief, here is what I know so far:
I am never confident that Latin has no place on the curriculum. Mostly this is because my three children all study or have studied it and classics in general play a large part in my house due to my extraordinarily well read partner. However, this LWF post is a good read. And it is hard
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As the Head of ICT and a Year 8 tutor (12-13 yr olds), I regularly get called upon to investigate inappropriate Facebook activity by pupils who are not legally allowed to have a Facebook account because they are underage. Listening to Luke DeLaney at Learning Without Frontiers in January 2011 (pictured here), he
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Having read @jamesmichie‘s post Beware Walled Garden’s Part 1, I was unable not to comment. I am currently writing the review of my school’s ICT strategic plan and aiming to incorporate some ambitious yet simple milestones that might underpin my belief that schools must embrace managed systems and not (please, no, never) locked down
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