As you might be aware from the twitter feed, I had an interview a little over a month ago for the HOD post at Little Heath. Great jobs like that don’t come up everyday, so I grabbed the opportunity and
Pencast!
This is really a sort of proof of concept. We do a lot of revision sessions, and I wanted to see if we could ask one teacher in particular to use a livescribe pen to do a pencast of one
The 'e-baldie' roadshow continues…
Tomorrow I’m speaking to Learning Plus conference at Easthampstead Park Conference Centre, Entitled “Working Towards Success at 16-19 and Beyond”, and as always my schtick will be ‘ICT for Learning’. I’ll be using the attached powerpoint, but also the online
D Week at OUDE
It’s D week at OUDE – the interns are back for a week in the department, or rather around the department, as we’re not on site for the whole thing. Monday we’re squeezing in a lot of great stuff. Once
Whole School Inset
It’s only 15 minutes (I think), and it’s to a staff I know well, but I’m really nervous. I’ll ask them for feedback on a form, and let you know how well it goes down. We’ll be focussing on ICT
We love yacapaca
As you might know from my last post, I made various presentations today at the University of Reading Institute of Education about using ICT to teach history. I think it went well, and I’ll find out later when I see
Reading ITT Partnership
I’m doing a session for the Reading ITT partnership on Monday 18th of January, and I’m going to try and avoid using powerpoint – not because I have anything against it, I’m just a bit bored of it. As a
Silence on Radio 4
What can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence. – Ludwig Wittgenstein Driving about on various errands yesterday I found myself listening to ‘word of mouth’ a
Teacher Driven? Ambition in E-Learning and Engagement
This is the last post I’ll make about the really excellent SSAT conference I attended a week ago on “Raising achievement through embedding learning technologies”. At this conference I met some really interesting people and heard some enthusiastic and engaging
The right tools (Full Marks)
I was at the SSAT conference on embedding learning last week, and it really fired my imagination, and one thing in particular has been rolling around my brain, the issue of ‘having the right tools’. If you have met me