Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

Vital is a new approach to ICT CPD. It is an innovative professional development programme which aims to support schools in England to make the most of ICT in their teaching. What are they trying to do? “Vital, alongside other CPD providers, agencies and employers, will work with specialist technology teachers (of IT, Computing and [...]

This is a fantastic opportunity for teachers to share the excellent practice that happens every day in their classroom. Promethean, the global leader in interactive education technology solutions, is conducting The ActivClassroom Film Festival Video Contest for teachers that effectively and creatively use Promethean ActivBoards, Learner Response Systems or ActivInspire software in their classrooms to [...]

I have been marking through my GCSE Science classes’ coursework today and am actually writing this short blog post as a break! (Ha ha I hear cries of get a life! Don’t worry I am used to people saying that, remember I dress up as a giant yellow chicken.) Every time I marked a piece [...]

Have you tried quizlet yet? No it isn’t a savoury snack similar to the disgusting product they call twiglets… Who eats twiglets? They are what they say they are just like eating mouldy tree branches. (I am not slagging off twiglets but in my personal opinion I don’t like them but they have many dietary [...]

Last year I created a post called songs for learning. If you didn’t read it then please have a quick look here: http://bit.ly/bP1Rxj It was all about using a Microsoft labs product called Songsmith. I absolutely love songsmith and so do the students it is a really simple, quick and easy way for students to [...]

There was a really interesting article from the BBC this week about E-safety. It can be found here: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/8505914.stm Basically what they are saying that to improve e-safety then give students more freedom on the internet, Ofsted have reported this from their recent findings. How much freedom do you give your students? How do you [...]

Late last night I turned on to twitter to see the tweet that is now the title of this post. It was from @merlinjohn who you probably know as the agent for change. His website Merlin John Online http://www.agent4change.net/ has some fantastic articles on and is currently running an innovator series for innovation in education. [...]

Yesterday I experienced one of the great days in education. We had a film crew come in (It was awesome to meet the tag team superhero duo of Ruth & Ralph – do you know them?) Ruth and Ralph were really nice and they were making a film for the Teaching Awards and Becta profiling [...]

This week we were visited by Bernhard who is carrying out research on e-learning in schools for his PhD. He came all the way over from Vienna to visit our school and the University of Plymouth. It was a fantastic opportunity for our students to discuss their work and how they use technology to enhance [...]

My students this week have been getting to know the delights of Tim and Moby by watching some of the movies and trying out the quizzes on Brainpop UK http://www.brainpop.co.uk/  We are fortunate enough to be an evaluator school and our kids have started to have a play around with the resources. The students have [...]