Jun 18 2010
Ever heard the phrase always the bridesmaid and never the bride. Well that is what happened at the TES Awards this week. For the second year running we were shortlisted as a finalist in the ICT Initiative category which in itself is an absolutely fantastic achievement and reflects the innovative ICT practice that is going [...]
Jun 18 2010
40 Year 9 boys, one teacher dressed as a chicken armed with 20 netbooks and a world cup challenge to complete a presentation to show to a global audience in just 3 hours is all part of a normal day at Saltash.net community school. These 14 year old boys were first thrown in the deep [...]
Jun 15 2010
Well I bet you are ready to join, I think I certainly am – The GTA is the Google Teacher Academy and in my opinion is a fantastic opportunity to collaborate and communicate with like minded practitioners within Education. Anyone can apply – so please do while you still have time: http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html There is a [...]
Jun 13 2010
As teachers we love things that help innovate our classroom, we want to excite and enthuse our students these things are so much more fun when they are free! Everyone loves a freebie and if you click on the link below it will take you to 30, yes that’s right 30 wow free resources thanks [...]
Jun 13 2010
Over the next few weeks I intend to look at some of the important posts over the last year this is because the readership of my blog has changed and some people may have not seen some of the earlier posts. Also it is good to look back and revisit some of the ideas and [...]
Jun 11 2010
Ladies, Gentleman and all chickens it gives me great pleasure to introduce you to an absolute legend and amazing ICT teacher who I am fortunate to work with ‘The Hozz’ – please follow him on twitter @hozmeister. Here is his guest blog! Ten seconds. That’s how long I give a new web 2.0 tool or [...]
Jun 06 2010
Wow where did the last year go? It is official, you heard it first and any other clichés you want to throw into this. My blog is one year old and I can’t believe that firstly that I am still writing it and secondly that some people read it. In fact over the last year [...]
Jun 04 2010
Last week I was teaching my Year 7 students (11-12 year olds) about subliminal advertising. Yes I can now imagine cries of what the hell do you think you are doing? Why would you be teaching this? We are doing a few lessons on how we can be effective communicators in the 21st century as [...]
Jun 01 2010
What Galileo was talking about here was plain and simple – coaching! There is another famous quote which they often say in education and I think sums up really effective peer coaching in schools and that is: “Catch a man a fish and it will feed him for a day, teach him how to fish [...]
