Jun 30 2009
Today is Tuesday (I think!) I only know that because I just read the top of the ISTE Daily Leader publication (Of which I meant to drop in I appeared in yesterday which was a bit of a surprise) Yesterday which was Monday the Worldwide Innovative Teachers were on a panel session with David Walddon [...]
Jun 30 2009
Well wow that is what sums up today! 3 different drinks receptions mixed in with some really hard work but a great experience! First off it was a Sunday and we were on the bus by 7:30am to attend the ISTE’s Leadership Symposium. First of all I was up at 4am as my body clock [...]
Jun 28 2009
On Thursday 25th June I travelled to Washington to attend a tour led by Microsoft and incorporating the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE’s) National Computing conference: See its website: http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2009/ I was invited by Microsoft with the other 9 or so award winners from the worldwide Innovative Teachers Forum in Hong Kong in [...]
Jun 24 2009
First of all if you want to know all the technical stuff on this and what Microsoft Songsmith is all about then read Stuart Ball’s (Innovative Teachers blog) http://blogs.msdn.com/teachers/archive/2009/06/10/britain-s-got-the-x-factor-idol.aspx You can download a free trial which I have done which lasts a long time – not on the number of times you use it but [...]
Jun 23 2009
Heroes are global All around the world Helping people to live and to grow With our qualities, we’re a community We are together, we are one” That is the chorus to our song from our international collaborative project a picture tells a thousand words. Who would have thought that at the Worldwide Innovative Teachers Forum [...]
Jun 14 2009
Last week was a crazy week for me and the staff and students at our school! We were up for 2 national awards on Tuesday and Thursday, at the beginning of the week I was thinking what if we didn’t win any of them or what if we win both! Is it such a big [...]
Jun 07 2009
This is a fantastic example of just what children and technology can achieve. It proves that technology really can open doors and cross divides. This project has transported the innovation of Cornish students from a classroom in Saltash to all over the world. Instead of me just re-writing what has already written about the project [...]
Jun 04 2009
On a hot and sticky sunny day this Tuesday, I dragged my Year 10 science students into one of our free ICT suites (Which now seem to be standing empty a lot more than usual, this is due to Year 11 & 13 leaving for examinations, but none of the other teachers have seemed to [...]
