Dec 14 2009
This is the first guest blog post of many by some of the Year 10 students at Saltash.net Community School. These students acted as roving reporters when we had our very important visit from Javier see: http://bit.ly/5qqu7c The students has requested that I post their work, no requested is not really a strong enough word [...]
Dec 13 2009
Last week I stepped in to cover an extracurricular ICT club at my school where hard core ICT evangelists between 11-15 years of age attend week by week because they are keen on ICT. The ICT teachers who run it do some fantastic and innovative things with the students such as doing their own game [...]
Dec 11 2009
Pecha Kucha? What is it? Well it is Japanese and is pronounced –”pe-chak-cha”, “The presentation format was devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham of Klein Dytham architecture. The first PechaKucha Night was held in Tokyo in their gallery, lounge, bar, club, creative kitchen SuperDeluxe in February 2003. Klein Dytham architecture still organize and support [...]
Dec 10 2009
I was completely shocked and amazed to find out that I had been shortlisted for an edublog award. I really can’t believe it – I am so chuffed, there is no way that when I started to write my blog at the end of May this year after inspiration from people such as Shelley Terrell, [...]
Dec 09 2009
Over the last few weeks there has been quite a bit of media attention regarding portable, mobile and hand held learning etc. In preparation for BETT in January there has been some stories in the papers about the forthcoming event. You can see one such article here with even myself being quoted which is good [...]
Dec 07 2009
Friday the 4th December was ‘Cool Earth Day’ as the students nicknamed it at Saltash.net Community School in Cornwall. In fact it was ‘Cool Earth Day’ all over the world too especially during the live twitcam session where we found ourselves being watched from as far away as Australia, Brazil and America! As a school [...]
Dec 04 2009
On Wednesday our Year 7 students were very excited to have a visit from Hayley a reporter from Newsround . They were doing a story about getting more schools to use free range eggs rather than eggs from battery chickens. You are probably aware that we have a small livestock farm at our school. In [...]
Dec 02 2009
Next Generation Kernow Presentation This will probably be the best blog post I have ever written. Why? Well because I haven’t written it this post has been written by a couple of my students about their experience of presenting at a national conference. You will see just what the power of student voice can really [...]
