Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

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 [...]

Now this is one of those questions we all find going round our head at 3am in the morning, ok I guess maybe it is just me, well at least it wasn’t about Chickens! What would your answer be to the question in the title? Well I think you should read the new article in [...]

Well I bet you are ready to join, I think I certainly am – The GTA is the Google Teacher Academy and in my opinion is a fantastic opportunity to collaborate and communicate with like minded practitioners within Education. Anyone can apply – so please do while you still have time: http://www.google.com/educators/gta.html There is a [...]

Last week I was teaching my Year 7 students (11-12 year olds) about subliminal advertising. Yes I can now imagine cries of what the hell do you think you are doing? Why would you be teaching this? We are doing a few lessons on how we can be effective communicators in the 21st century as [...]

Would your students like to do a presentation to students from a different country about the World Cup? This project is an international collaborative project where students from different schools from different countries pick a country that is represented in the World Cup and they create a multimedia presentation about that country working in a [...]

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 [...]

Well what a delicious drink the Pisco Sour! As you have probably worked out I am writing this having arrived in Peru finally after a very long journey. I left home at 1:30am to drive up to Bristol airport on Monday for a 6am flight to Lima via Amsterdam. I finally arrived at the hotel [...]

The last month or so I have been embarking on a journey of transition, I have visited six of our seven primary partner schools (One more to do this week!). I had the privilege to work with Year 5 and 6 students for a couple of hours on a transition lesson titled what makes an [...]

Today is Tuesday (I think!) I only know that because I just read the top of the ISTE Daily Leader publication (Of which I meant to drop in I appeared in yesterday which was a bit of a surprise) Yesterday which was Monday the Worldwide Innovative Teachers were on a panel session with David Walddon [...]

Well wow that is what sums up today! 3 different drinks receptions mixed in with some really hard work but a great experience! First off it was a Sunday and we were on the bus by 7:30am to attend the ISTE’s Leadership Symposium. First of all I was up at 4am as my body clock [...]