Oct 30 2010
It is very exciting news that Jan Webb (@janwebb21) who many of you will know via twitter picked up one of Microsoft’s Worldwide Innovative Education Awards for her international collaborative work. This is absolutely amazing news for Jan, her students, school and the wider community – well done to her! Also every teacher who is [...]
Oct 29 2010
Have you been following the feeds from Microsoft’s Worldwide Innovative Education Forum in South Africa this week? Do you know what it is all about? If you haven’t looked at some of the stuff yet then a great start is looking on twitter at #msief and look back at the archive and links. First of [...]
Oct 26 2010
Just thought I would post about a feature in this week’s TES magazine which I appear in about using interactive whiteboards. It is a really interesting piece by Jack Kenny – you can read it in full here: http://bit.ly/bPwfl2 I have the following tips on using them based on my own experience and what I [...]
Oct 22 2010
saltash.net community school has beaten off competition from more than 150 schools across the country to make the final of Becta’s national ICT Excellence Awards. The ICT Excellence Awards, which recognise and reward those schools that have shown how technology can be imaginatively used to enhance lessons and support all school activities, have been run [...]
Oct 21 2010
Finally you can now see the chickenman and others from saltash.net community school on the Teachers TV website as part of the Sharing your great practice series. You can watch the video here: http://www.teachers.tv/videos/sharing-your-great-practice-pupil-led-learning It features pupil-led learning and lots of cute animals and children! Would love to hear your thoughts on this – what [...]
Oct 18 2010
This week we had a visit from Teachers TV, who were making a programme following our school being selected as doing some extremely innovative work in pupil-lead learning. Saltash.net beat off stiff opposition by some other schools in the area doing some exciting work. Charlotte Hume the programme presenter and her guest judge the children’s [...]
Oct 18 2010
Last Friday we had the pleasure of the first of two film crews visiting our school that week. This particular film has been commissioned by Microsoft Worldwide Partners in Learning focusing on the future of education. Our school is one of four schools that were selected across the world to feature in this video that [...]
Oct 18 2010
Have you heard of Freerice? The first I heard about this new website was from the legend that is Kristian Still (you can follow him on twitter @kristianstill) you can read his blog post on Freerice here: http://kristianstill.co.uk/wordpress/2010/09/20/freerice-ideas/ If you read Kristian’s post then you can see some fantastic ideas on how to use this. [...]
Oct 12 2010
Last night I had a huge privilege to speak at the Teachmeet in Plymouth aimed at inspiring and giving professional development to people aspiring to be teachers and newly qualified teachers. The event was organised by the Plymouth Educational Society at the University of Plymouth so special thanks must go to them and thank you [...]
Oct 11 2010
I was asked to do a presentation this evening at the University of Plymouth’s first ever Teachmeet for new teachers and those currently working towards being a teacher by completing a teaching degree. You can see the Teachmeet site here: http://www.teachmeet.org.uk/ So as the audience is mostly new or new to be teachers and the [...]
