Dec 14 2011
It looks like Father Christmas answered my letter this year with a positive return, perhaps I have been nice and not naughty this year. This morning I woke up 11 days before Christmas with a brilliant present, I was able to download a free app for my Iphone which was Microsoft’s Windows Live Skydrive. I [...]
Dec 12 2011
I am starting a new project in the new year focusing around London 2012. I originally got this idea through @kristianstill and his interactive fiction stuff however this is not about the actual games but about creating interactive books instead, but thank you Kristian for helping me formulate the idea. I am planning to do [...]
Dec 09 2011
This really made me laugh today to see that a couple of my tweets from the SSAT National Conference about Michael Gove’s talk ended up in the Times Educational Supplement this week… Check it out here: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6149504
Dec 09 2011
You may have heard about this already and have seen it so apologies if you have but I finally got round to watching the demo of using Kinect technology to use Microsoft’s Worldwide Telescope. I heard about this back in November from Microsoft’s worldwide education forum but hadn’t seen it in action. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=1-tMp4WkQjA I have [...]
Dec 08 2011
Wow I couldn’t believe this when I read this on twitter yesterday… Not sure what I am doing in this 50 social media stars… Thank you Michael Keathley and the site for Best Colleges on line for including me in the list of many of my heroes! Good also to see some people from the [...]
Dec 08 2011
Thank goodness it’s Friday, to help brighten up your day and to help you with your planning at weekends, I will be posting a weekly web based idea that will take just 1 minute of your time to read about. If you like what you read then why not try it out in your lessons [...]
Dec 07 2011
Thank goodness it’s Friday, to help brighten up your day and to help you with your planning at weekends, I will be posting a weekly web based idea that will take just 1 minute of your time to read about. If you like what you read then why not try it out in your lessons [...]
Dec 07 2011
So the much anticipated ‘Geek Strip’ has now been officially released. For those who missed by talk at TEDxLondon in September 2011 you unfortunately now have the opportunity to watch it or if you have seen it watch again at your own leisure. Obviously as always would love your feedback, I hope that it will [...]
Dec 06 2011
The 8th Microsoft UK Partners in Learning Forum is a one-day conference, free of charge to all teachers and educators who wish to attend. The workshops and keynote presentations this year had a STEM ‘flavour’ and addressed the theme of ‘Teach more, learn more, inspire more.’ This year the Forum was held at the Microsoft [...]
Dec 02 2011
Yesterday myself and Ray Chambers an ICT teacher at Lodge Park Technology College did two school showcase presentations at the conference. We had a really great attendance to both sessions and also received some excellent feedback on the work that our students were doing. The presentation centred around games based learning looking specifically at two [...]
