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This July a Digital summer camp is being run in London – this looks like a great event fro students and teachers – the aim of the event is to ignite passion for computing and digital skills in ‘hotshot entrepeneurs’ aged 9-18. The press release from them gives more information: Tech City, East [...]
It’s now my second year in Year 5 and I have to say one of my favourite topics has been the Tudors. This year we have added to it making use of ICT. One of the ways we did this was using weebly this is a free service whereby teachers can sign up to 40 students [...]
Think this is a great idea!!! Red Nose Day on the 15th March is coming and some HE Students have put together http://www.scratchyournose.com to try and inspire 1000+ schools to support Red Nose Day, by creating Scratch animations and games and have fun!. Highfields Secondary School in Wolverhampton will be broadcasting out live over the web at various [...]
I am always interested in events and contests to enable digital innovation, this week IC tomorrow, a Technology Strategy Board programme that stimulates innovation and economic growth in the digital sector, launched ‘Digital Innovation Contest – Education’, in association with Nesta. For the first time, this series of contests is exploring emerging opportunities in the [...]
Bett 13 finished two days ago and feel that I have just about recovered. This year was a busy one – on Wednesday myself and one of the HLTAs from school took 4 of our digital leaders. They were presenting on the 2simple and Rising Stars stands as well as having a look to see [...]
Do you have a great idea for technology in education – if so then the EdMix pitchfest at BETT could be for you! EdMix have announced Europe’s largest edtech pitching competition – they are looking to hear from businesses and education innovations with any subject focus and of course any technology. There is a fantastic [...]
Rising stars is a well known educational supplier, at school we have been using their ‘achieve level’ books for the last year. We find these are great for targeted questioning and support for the children in both English and Maths. They have now also launched their first app – Level 4 maths for the ipad [...]
The weekend of January 24th-26th sees the second StartUp Weekend London Edu, Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. This particular Startup Weekend is focussed on Education. Attendees will be invited to pitch their ideas for the next big [...]
Yesterday I attended the inaugural London Festival of Education – it was a great day with lots of thought provoking questions raised – not always answered and a programme that was packed. For me this was part of the problem – there was just too much good stuff at one point delegates had the choice [...]
On Thursday night I headed along to a local school to attend a teach meet concerning all things iPad – it was a most excellent evening organised by Mr Skinny boy Evans. At the moment I only use my own iPad in class and was really looking forward to hearing how other schools had approached [...]
I am Senior Teacher/ICT co-ordinator at Oakdale Junior School. I am passionate about using ICT and games based learning in school. The views expressed here are my own and not those of my employer.
