Quick post about some cool scratch games my Y8 learners have made. See it all on the YouTube video below. Recorded with SnagIt from TechSmith.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AauJ9zLs8k
Teacher Intangibles – you can’t touch this!
The things a teacher does that you cannot count. Each summer, NFL teams draft players from colleges around America. Losing teams get first pick of the best players. There was much debate about how high in the draft Tim Tebow would come. My stepson showed me a video of Tebow’s intangibles (will link when I
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Programming the Maths Curriculum
This was written as a response to Pete Bell’s blogpost ICT and Computing in Schools – Harness a new dawn AQA have attempted (2009)to take this issue seriously and consulted IBM, British Aerospace and other big corps to identify what they want from graduates. The answer, according to Barbara Wilson – chief examiner at the
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42/365 My students get their own space in school moodle
Today I decided to give my Lower Sixth students their own page on the school moodle and set them as teachers. They seem quite enthused by the idea. A place they can customise, get other students to enrol in. Subscribe to their forums so they behave like blogs and they can be moderators. Store work.
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39/365 I got played…
My class did this today whilst we were disussing something and I had left the remote control software on the board. Clearly the three culprits were off task a little while (my bad) but I loved their ingenuity to use the tools to talk to me. An interesting concept in a lesson – each pupil
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