Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

Although these two teachers I am going to talk about didn’t win an US award, I am not sure why but anyway both their projects are brilliant and they are just superb teachers and lovely people too. I wanted to profile them and their work as it was one of the things that has left [...]

This series of posts is all about my magical, mystery tour of Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, Washington state, USA. You can follow the feed of what happens over the next week by using the official #msftpil or the unofficial #chickengates. I have been extremely fortunate to be selected to attend Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Institute [...]

Wow that is one word that sums up my time at Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Institute in Redmond at Microsoft HQ. It was a real privilege to spend time with all of the Microsoft staff – I thank them for the opportunity, their kindness and warmth. It was fantastic to spend time with the four [...]

We are living in a time of a whole new set of possibilities… this is what Sir Ken Robinson says in this video produced by Microsoft called We are the Future… Yes I may have mentioned this before (ha ha) but it also features me with Sir Ken: A whole new set of possibilities Whilst [...]

So here are the links as promised to my teachmeet presentation where I forced the audience to record a joint songsmith on What a Teachmeet was? Here are the amazing lyrics that took me all of 5 minutes to create, it is probably the best thing I have done in my life… I chose to [...]

I am not going to say anything about this – just watch and enjoy Check out the Chicken rap in the middle!

This series of posts is all about my magical, mystery tour of Microsoft Headquarters in Redmond, Washington state, USA. You can follow the feed of what happens over the next week by using the official #msftpil or the unofficial #chickengates. I have been extremely fortunate to be selected to attend Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Institute [...]

This series of posts is all about my magical, mystery tour of Microsoft Headquaters in Redmond, Washington state, USA. You can follow the feed of what happens over the next week by using the official #msftpil or the unofficial #chickengates. I have been extremely fortunate to be selected to attend Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Institute [...]

Nearing the end of the first day whilst working on the ‘LASW’ activity see this earlier post: http://whydidthechickencrosstheroad.org.uk/2011/07/26/microsoft-magical-mystery-tour-part-6-what-on-earth-is-lasw/ a really great debate started around the use of ICT within the classroom, which we discussed for a while and it would be interesting to see what your view point on this is. We were discussing the [...]

This series of posts is all about my magical, mystery tour of Microsoft Headquaters in Redmond, Washington state, USA. You can follow the feed of what happens over the next week by using the official #msftpil or the unofficial #chickengates. I have been extremely fortunate to be selected to attend Microsoft’s Partners in Learning Institute [...]