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 [...]
Last week the guys from Zondle along with Dr Paul Howard Jones came in to introduce Zondle Team Play to my class and to see it in action! The children in my class are used to Zondle as we make a great deal of use of it in the Autumn term creating quizzes alongside our space [...]
Almost a month since my last blog post… a combination of factors have led to this but I am now back! With lots of ideas and blogs to come in the next couple of weeks. After attending both LWF and BETT – the weeks leading up to now have been very busy both at work [...]
The new Government has now been in power for just over two months and the changes are starting to hit home – not in my view for the better. We had our letter today outlining how our HTG (harnessing Technology Grant) would be cut – it’s not good! This is the last year of the [...]
The 2010 World cup has now kicked off and once again thanks to Twitter I have become involved in another exciting project! John Sutton (@HGJohn) sent out a tweet asking if schools would be interested in blogging about the World Cup – and so the project Blog the world cup began! I signed up as [...]
Amazing, inspirational, educational, fascinating and fun – what more could you ask for on a Friday night?? Words can not fully describe or do justice to the atmosphere in the Apex room at 6 pm last night – I guess it was one of those where you had to be there – and I was [...]
And so on to part 2! First up was @alfie – ‘How to give your ideas wings’ and he certainly gave us some fantastic ideas to give wings to! he encouraged people to involve people in your thing! Some of the things that he has been involved in is Britglyph – an amazing collaborative art [...]
Last month the National Education Network ran a competition inviting children to be ‘A Reporter for the Day’. It wanted children to: Write a news story or a script between 250 and 400 words or make a video or audio recording (between 90 seconds and 120 seconds) that tells us how you think “technology is [...]
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.
