Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

Students at Saltash.net participated in the Big Bird Watch organised by the RSPB. This involved students collecting real scientific data to identify bird species using Ipads. The Ipads were a huge hit with the students allowing them to document bird sighting, discover scientific information regarding the specific species of birds identified and listen to the [...]

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 [...]

As part of our preparations for Safer Internet Day 2012, I have been running Esafety sessions with Year 4, 5 and 6 students from our primary partner schools over the last couple of weeks. In addition this week we have been running whole school assemblies raising the profile of Esafety, here is an overview of [...]

This is my second #BETT2012 related post, I can’t believe how busy it is at the moment and how long ago BETT was already and I am only getting to write the second post about it. A couple of weeks ago the phase 1 Cloudlearn.net report was released at BETT. It is a research project [...]

I have been part of the Partners in Learning Community for around 5 years now and it has made a positive impact not just on my own professional development, but also the teachers that I work with and more importantly it has made an impact on the learning of the young people in our community. [...]

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 [...]

I discovered last night about some more award finalists that I didn’t know about and just wanted to say a big well done to them. The Naace impact award winners will be announced on Friday 9th March 2012 at the Naace Annual Conference in Leicester. One of the finalists is Microsoft’s Partners in Learning community [...]

I have to say I was a bit shocked and still am really to receive the news via my answer phone, text, tweet, email and skype yesterday from many people I know. They were all telling me the same thing that I am a finalist in the Learning Without Frontiers Special Achievement Award for 2012. [...]

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 [...]

There was a good article in the TES just before Christmas – actually the TES Pro which isn’t available online however the same article is now available in the TES Scotland online here: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6162190 Be interested to hear what you think?