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
Films for Learning
About 5 years ago I was working with a friend, Dan Raven-Ellison, on using video in the classroom using mobile phones. The whole thing was quite hard really, and if I’m honest, we didn’t really get our heads around how
Warwick PGCIE finished!
Been a bit busy lately. So, I got an extension from lovely people who run the Warwick PGCIE for my second assignemnt. In the end I had to take my laptop and printer on holiday with me to Guernsey, but I got it done (thanks to the patience and hard work of Sarah and my parents-in-law).
Seek and you shall find.
So. I’m increasingly thinking about search. Search (as in using google, yahoo etc) is increasingly what students do when asked to do homework. I’m having small victories. I’ve been asking my students to do several things recently when doing project based activities (partially because I’ve had to leave so many classes to cover because of my new role in school as temporary HOD for ICT). One is that they should work out and record their initial keyword search terms before they approach the terminal.
Writing for Wikipedia as an assignment
Teachers and their ideas about ICT for learning

Great Value INSET from the SSAT, and Me!
Regular readers will know that I was recently appointed as a Lead Practitioner by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust. Lead Practitioners offer great value, amazingly practical and inspiring INSET under the SSAT Lead Practitioner Programme.
Blogging with students
Somebody is reading! Ali from Rohampton sent a very nice comment, which I’ve only just picked up.
Web 2.0 wow
Short one today, just had root canal work :(. Anyway, whilst drifting into a codine induced snooze I noted the following link. I’ve heard lots of people talking about voicethread, but I’ve been quite sceptical about how it could work. Of course, it’s banned in the LEA WAN, but I think I might ask for it to be unblocked, after seeing the amazing application here: <a href="http