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Google Teacher Academy UK – GTAUK

Published on April 4, 2012 in elearning, Google

I am a Google Certified Teacher. Whatever this means – elitist, exciting, exclusive, awesome, globalisation, brilliant, egotistical – Google offer a fantastic range of tools that are more or less free to teachers and pupils. Well, a grand don’t come for free, so that makes us – the users – the product generating revenue for

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XtraNormal in Google Earth video tutorials

Published on April 3, 2012 in elearning, Google, ICT, Maths

I found this site via the Google Certified Teacher’s Google Group discussing Google Earth. It got me all of a fizzle about using this instructional layer KMZ file with pupils in Maths or Geography next year as part of ICT in Subjects. You can download the Google Earth file here. The first link in the

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ICT in Subjects Planning Website

Published on April 3, 2012 in ICTinSubjects

  If you have been following these early posts for the ICT in Subjects project, you may realise I am a bit daunted by all the planning that will be necessary to make a success of it. To help me stay organised and allow others – inside and outside school – to monitor progress of

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Surveying subjects for ICT skills

Published on April 1, 2012 in ICTinSubjects

Below is a form for Heads of Departments to fill in with information about the unit of work they teach each half term. What do you think? Is this a good move or will it turn teachers off? Too much work? There will be six pages on the finished form; one per half term. Is

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ICT in Subjects

Published on April 1, 2012 in ICT, ICTinSubjects

My school have taken the plunge to deliver ICT through subjects – exciting times I hear you think! Every school I am aware of having done this has back-peddled to discrete lessons because it is too difficult to do it well – too many teachers without the necessary skillset or knowledge to facilitate ICT learning.

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daibarnes - @davidErogers Can do 14:00 if easier?? 17 hours ago

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