Jan 31 2010
An international project that will reach 12 million children from 20 different countries by 2012 and we are very excited to be part of it. On the 1st of March I will be travelling to Nigeria to take part in the international inspiration event, the project involves working in partnership with UK sport, the British [...]
Jan 29 2010
Recently my year 8 students (just 12 years old) have been learning about lots of different memory techniques and how to practice them in other subjects. They have been trying out memory techniques that they may have used before or know such as mnemonics, raps, rhymes, SPECS, mindmaps, etc we even learned how to use [...]
Jan 26 2010
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, come on must be at least one of you! You will have seen my recent posts on creating revision podcasts. This is a follow up to that where my students have progressed in making their podcasts by making them slightly more professional and making them available to [...]
Jan 21 2010
Yes it is true, our school has a radio station. I know that lots of schools have them but they range from online ones run over the internet to pupils broadcasting over the schools basic PA system. The one we have is the latest hi-tech one available for schools and does cost a lot of [...]
Jan 20 2010
So do you record your own revision podcasts for your students or do your students create their own? If so what do you use? I have been creating revision audio podcasts for the last 5 years or so and my students have happily been downloading them to their ipods to revise on the school bus [...]
Jan 20 2010
First of all to avoid any possible disappointed unfortunately this competition is for UK teachers only. Teachers from other countries are encouraged to contact Microsoft within your own country to see if they are running any other similar competition. Basically the competition is to create your own ‘innovid’ which is a 4 minute how 2 [...]
Jan 18 2010
Welcome to 2010 ok yes I am sorry it is over 2 weeks late but I had my iphone surgically removed from my right hand, I went through cold turkey (more poultry mentions) after having my twitter account frozen and the password on my emails were unfortunately reset! I suppose in addition I booked myself [...]
