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 [...]

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! [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

So after being asked these two questions via Twitter and Facebook literally over 20 times in the last 24 hours. I thought the easiest way to answer these questions is through a short blog post, otherwise I am beginning to sound like a broken record, I feel like I am featuring in the film ground [...]

Great to see that my students work in their project Games Based Blogging has hit the news! Please check out their article in the Times Educational Supplement this week: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6118702 How video games through Microsoft’s Kodu and blogging through Live Writer and WordPress is improving literacy and engagement!

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 keynotes this year have a STEM ‘flavour’ and address the theme of ‘Teach more, learn more, inspire more.’ This year the Forum is being held at the Microsoft [...]

If you don’t know anything about this project then please take the time to briefly read this blog post by my students: http://bit.ly/mhKQTe  One of the first people to pilot this project on behalf of my students is an ICT teacher called Ray Chambers. Ray is a really amazing teacher, extremely creative, confident and competent [...]

Yes you are probably as confused as I am writing this post about ‘interrobang’ but it isn’t that hard to understand once you have a look at it: http://playinterrobang.com/ I was shown this by some teachers at the Microsoft Partners in Learning Institute in Seattle recently. I think it is a really cool website and [...]

While I was in Seattle last week I heard that the OneNote app for the Iphone had finally been released, even better it is free or is free anyway for now for a short time only. You can download it from the app store like all apps, I have just downloaded it and tested it [...]