Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

Have you used or seen Fuzzwich yet? It is a fantastic free web 2.0 tool that you can use to engage your students http://www.fuzzwich.com . It is a really easy and simple way to make short online mini animated videos. My students love using it because it is so easy to use, you don’t even require [...]

Have you seen this yet? If you haven’t then this is a fantastic new resource for you to get students to use in their science or Biology lessons from any age from 14-18 years old. It is great for even teachers to play with like I have been doing.  I was first shown this from [...]

I just had to share this with regular readers to the blog, I was passed a copy of this in work yesterday and I burst out laughing. In fact it has had the same effect on many others that have read it. It is a write up of the recent award at the Learning Without [...]

Students and staff at saltash.net community school have been celebrating after achieving high levels of success at a national festival of Learning and Technology organised by an organisation called ‘Learning Without Frontiers’. Year 13 students Robin, Mark  and Jamie, as well as Year 11 student Humphrey, travelled to London with their ICT teachers, on Sunday [...]

The BBC have just released ‘Class Clips’ – a library of over 7,000 videos and audio clips handpicked by teachers from the BBC archive. Each clip is mapped to the curriculum and all subject areas seem to be covered. I think this is a great resource for teachers and students thank you to a friend [...]

Mouse Mischief is one of the best things that I have seen and used that is free this year to really engage the students in your classroom. Recently at BETT myself and Stuart Ball from Microsoft talked and demonstrated how it worked – you can see a copy of the resources and more information on Stuart’s [...]

I was pleased to see a tweet from my boss @issybryce today informing me that our school is mentioned in an article in the TES today with Prof Stephen Heppell about our use of mobile phones and social networking in schools. What do you think about this? You can read the article by Jack Kenny [...]

So with the announcement yesterday about the changes to the curriculum – many teachers have really strong views on the impact that this will have on our schools but more importantly on our students and their future. This is what has been said: “The new government believes the current national curriculum is over-prescriptive, includes material [...]

There were so many things going on during #BETT2011 actually probably too much for one person to get round and experience especially when there were two things going on that you really wanted to see at the same time and after all that there was still the exhibition! This is fantastic to have so much [...]

I just wanted to congratulate Alessio Bernadelli who many of you may know as @asober on twitter to him, his school and more importantly his students at Croesyceiliog school. You can read more about what they did on Alessio’s blog http://bit.ly/gJHZUh. Alessio is a brilliant teacher and does some really creative work, I first heard [...]