Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

It is with great sadness that I have resigned from my post as Deputy Headteacher at Saltash.net, I have loved every single minute of the last five years at the school, the children, staff and community are simply amazing and they have always shown me great support and encouragement in everything I have done both [...]

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 [...]

I woke up this morning and realised that it is 2 years to the day to when I first set up my blog. I can’t believe that it has been two years, it is funny reflecting on this. I start to think why did I even start? Well there were two main reasons – the [...]

Thanks to those who took part in the presentations today… As I wrote this blog post live during the presentation to demonstrate livewriter I had to write that you were an amazing audience, but saying that you were really great so thank you and hope some of these tools below can help you. To get [...]

If you are a teacher, no matter what age range you teach or where you teach but if you have an interest in using webcams in your lessons for video conferencing or for instant messaging using tools such as Skype or Windows Live Messenger then I really would like to hear from you. I am [...]

It was billed as one of the best professional development conferences this year and it certainly was. There are too many things to mention so I will mention some of them which I would call the #chickenhighlights and I won’t be mentioning what we call #chickenkaraoke. I also must apologise to all those who attended [...]

Just to introduce this one – this is something that happened back in June of this year – I wrote all of these posts (there are actually 4 parts to it) but never got to publish them on my blog even though I promised to! After someone asked me recently on twitter whatever happened to [...]

Do you collaborate with teachers and children from around the world? Perhaps you have completed the International School Award from the British Council? The International School Award is a way of Developing & celebrating the international dimension, it is open to all UK schools and it’s free of charge! Since 1999 10,000 schools have gained [...]

Before I even get into this you really need to also check out Graeme Eyre’s blog post on this @gceyre here: http://graemeeyre.info/?p=366 as there is probably quite a bit of overlap. If someone was to say to you that 22 teachers headed to Reading in their summer holidays to ‘work’ and not get paid for [...]

Well it isn’t a new game for the xbox it is a simple, free web 2.0 way of sharing ideas by recording your own audio type podcasts. I first came across it when I read through Nik Peachey’s Web 2.0 tools for teacher’s booklet which he produced a few months back. It is a great [...]