Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

Who owns the learning? I was so excited to hear Alan speak as I have followed him since I started teaching nearly 10 years ago. Alan started by saying it really isn’t about technology but about control, who takes control of it? Who manages it? Who owns the learning? Is it the students or is [...]

Every child has talent! 3 core themes of the conference: 1.Entrepreneurship 2. Creativity 3. New technologies Claire started by sharing that employees want: Good communicator, hard work ethic, team player, proactive, push themselves out of comfort zones and be emotionally robust. What about enterprise skills? Similar – honesty, leadership, risk takers etc Claire shared that [...]

Just an update on the conference that is happening at the end of the month. I am so excited to have the privilege to present at this years conference with Ray Chambers who you will know as @lanky_boi_ray. More details can be found here on the The Schools Network Blog: http://blog.ssatrust.org.uk/blog/index.php/2011/11/16/games-based-blogging-to-raise-standards/ Let me know what [...]

Last week we hosted a continuous professional development event at saltash.net in association with the SSAT. It was a fantastic event and considering the time of year I around 45 delegates from over 11 different schools across the South West which was brilliant for a twilight. As promised here is more information with links from [...]

After reflecting on one of the presentations I gave last night at the South West conference Engage and inspire with new technologies in association with the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust at Saltash.net. One person asked me to give me ten good reasons why she should allow her students to use mobile phones and facebook. [...]

If you are in the South West why not come to the fantastic training session brought to you from the SSAT and Saltash.net Community School. The event is on Wednesday 6th July at Saltash.net, there will be no cost for cover as it is a twilight and it only costs £25 per school to attend [...]

As I am sure regular readers to this blog will know I have been championing the use of social networking within schools for students and staff for years now and in particular Facebook in the last couple of years, it is having an extremely positive impact on our school while others seem to be running [...]

This week I have had a couple of people message me to ask if I have a post that collates all my blog posts from the SSAT national conference in November 2010. Well as I like to keep my friends happy here you are: 1) Who is John Davitt? – ICT, new tools, learning – [...]

This is an inspirational story and if you have time and this is something that you are interested in then I urge you to click on the link and watch John’s keynote speech from the SSAT National Conference. Please note all of the keynote talks are now available at the same site: http://bit.ly/fn0pus John Wood [...]

This could be the potentially the most bizarre post I have ever written and considering what some of the posts are about it even surprises me to say that. So anyway a couple of weeks ago we were asked by the SSAT to help pilot a new website all about global citizens which was launched [...]