Apr 19 2012
ICT – Slide rules
Check out my recent article in the TEs all about Pecha Kucha http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6204429
Mar 10 2012
Use music to engage children with difficult subjects
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?
Mar 10 2012
Use music to engage children with difficult subjects
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?
Jan 06 2012
Who’s bored by the whiteboard?
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?
Dec 09 2011
A chicken’s tweets about Gove make it to the TES
This really made me laugh today to see that a couple of my tweets from the SSAT National Conference about Michael Gove’s talk ended up in the Times Educational Supplement this week… Check it out here: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6149504
Oct 21 2011
English – It’s all in the video game
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!
Oct 07 2011
No time to chicken out!
4 years on and it is still making news, the award winning Recharge the Battery project – chickens and technology what more do you need! http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6115634
Jun 25 2011
ICT–The best of all worlds
Just spotted this morning that I am quoted in a great article by Jack Kenny in the Times Educational Supplement all about Skype. Good timing especially as I am presenting later today at the Education Festival organised by the Times. Here is the article what do you think? http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6090279
May 13 2011
Fabulous new Facebook feature
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 [...]
May 06 2011
3 years in a row…
We had some fantastic news today which you can read about in the Times Educational Supplement this week here: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6079676 For the third year running Saltash.net Community School has been shortlisted and is in the final of the TES Awards in the Outstanding ICT Learning Initiative. We have never won this award in the past [...]
