Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

Wow this is truly awesome! Livewire Youth Music Project in Saltash http://www.livewireyouth.com/  have released a charity rock single last Friday with guests including Lemmy from Motorhead. It is currently the number 1 bestseller in Amazons Classic Rock category. You can but it through the link below… It is all for a good cause the money raised [...]

I am so excited about Friday 4th March, we will be hosting our second learning and teaching with new technologies conference, we did one a couple of years ago which was inspirational. Here are the details: The main aim is to inspire and motivate teachers to use new technologies within their classrooms. It will build on [...]

Last week some of our teachers were having a go at using TinEye in fact they were shown it by one of our students – it looks great! What is it? “TinEye is a reverse image search engine. You can submit an image to TinEye to find out where it came from, how it is [...]

First of all I really must state that this is not a top ten list of blogs, although all the people mentioned are fantastic and do write great blogs, I know there are many others who do and who I regularly read myself and comment on, but this list was put together for teachers who [...]

This week I have had a couple of people message me to ask if I have a post that collates all my blog posts from the SSAT national conference in November 2010. Well as I like to keep my friends happy here you are: 1) Who is John Davitt? – ICT, new tools, learning – [...]

I have just been looking at the programme and who will be attending and presenting at the Northern Grid for Learning’s professional development conference on 24th June 2011. It is so exciting, there are so many fantastic speakers already signed up, if you haven’t registered to attend then please do so before it is too [...]

You may remember that at Learning Without Frontiers this year our students were shortlisted for the Y Factor and attended the Sunday Surgery with Jason Bradbury and presented their project called X box Marks the Spot. The students didn’t win but came a close second! You have to watch their presentation here on video: http://bit.ly/lwf11-lyf [...]

I came across this blog post this week and it reminded me of a fantastic event that happened a couple of months ago: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/teachers/ A great thing that has now been produced is a video of the event – which gives you an idea of what it was all about and mentions some ideas and [...]