Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

This weekend I was extremely privileged and fortunate to be at the National Teaching Awards 2009 for a long weekend of celebrations. I wasn’t just hanging around for no reason but was up for an award because I had won the Silver Plato for the South West. So as a matter of fact I am [...]

We don’t need no education… Every time I heard someone mention Wallwisher without using it myself I seemed to have pink Floyd singing in my head. Wallwisher www.wallwisher.com is a great little web 2.0 tool principally for collaboration. You have a virtual wall where you can post little post it notes on to it although [...]

I am of course talking about the magic web 2.0 tool Photopeach – you can visit it and set up your own free account at http://www.photopeach.com/ I first heard about photopeach by looking at @raff31’s Year 4 blog. Mr Rafferty is a Year 4 teacher at Green Park school in Liverpool check out their blog [...]

It is quite a strange experience to meet people after you have been stalking them on twitter for months but on Friday it was really nice when @marthawright from Futurelabs came to visit our school as part of a case study on innovative use of technology as part of the new curriculum this was on [...]

Well all the women in my life have finally had enough of me and I have been sent to Coventry this week, quite literally. I am with BECTA for the next two days looking at E-Maturity. So what is that I hear you ask? Good question I am still getting my head round it! Today we [...]

This blog is for Blog Action Day 2009 Climate Change: www.blogactionday.org  You may have read my earlier post on how you can save the world in one minute? Students basically made their own one minute videos communicating how they can save the world in one minute. The student’s message was that it is extremely important [...]

Last week was our first tri-nation get together as we began our journey of learning together. As part of a Commenius project called Knowing me knowing you (A-HA just for all you fans of Alan Partridge or Abba, if you ever meet me I can show you how I can combine my handshake with giving [...]

This week in school we launched our 1st assessment task for the term for our Year 7 students who are following our Learning to Learn course which is an hour a week for the next three years. It is taught as a discreet subject and in this first term students are completing the module called [...]

Have you tried Doink? If not then why? Last Friday I was planning for lessons the following week and wanted to try and let my students create their own animations. The reason for this is that my Year 11 students were learning about enzyme theory and one of the things that students always seem difficult [...]

Last week we were fortunate to have a visit from some of our friends from Microsoft. Over the last couple of years we have been involved in several collaborations and some of it I have talked about here on previous blogs. Last week David Walddon who is Microsoft’s worldwide leader of the Partners in Learning [...]