Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

Special congratulations to Katie Boothman this morning as last night at Microsoft’s European Innovative Education Forum in Lisbon @boothmank won the award for her project called the H.I.T squad. This is fantastic news for Katie, her students and the school she joins a long list of UK, European and Worldwide winners from Saltash.net over the [...]

Check out an article in the TES this week featuring Microsoft’s Songsmith by me: Science – Sing a song of study – http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6191829 Let me know what you think?

Check out an article in the TES this week featuring Microsoft’s Songsmith by me: Science – Sing a song of study – http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6191829 Let me know what you think?

So after much badgering from: James Edwards @Jimmy_edwards from Saltash.net http://techlemur.wordpress.com/ Ray Chambers @Lanky_Boi_Ray http://www.raychambers.wordpress.com Gareth Ritter @ritzertech http://www.askthemusicteacher.co.uk/ Nicki Maddams @GeekyNicki http://www.interactiveclassroom.net/ and finally after much begging from Stuart Ball @innovativeteach http://blogs.msdn.com/b/teachers/ I can officially announce that I have finally agreed to become the ‘Face’ of the K Team, often to make new initiatives and ventures a [...]

Last week I did some additional sessions on Esafety with some of the local primary students, one of the things I do is leave them to reflect on where they think technology will be in the next ten years. I show them this video by Microsoft: A good look at what the future may bring! [...]

Whilst at #BETT2012 I attended a huge event with Microsoft called the Education Leaders Conference which in itself was a brilliant event. However when we sat down for the conference dinner each delegate had been given this book: I was pleased to get a free book but even more surprised when I opened it up [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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?

Congratulations to Katie Boothman and James Edwards AKA @boothmank and @jimmy_edwards who made it into the press over Christmas. Great article here please check it out! Queen Boothman arise! http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/Teacher-Katie-wins-prize-innovation/story-14258802-detail/story.html