Yesterday I joined a room full of other history teachers who had come from far and wide (including Romania!) for the first #TMHistoryIcons – A day long event focussed on sharing ideas around the teaching of the best subject on the timetable! While not a typical Teachmeet (and it’s becoming harder to say what one […]
5 quick lo / hi tech ideas for extending pedagogy – #TMHistoryIcons
I’ve come up to Chester to the first #TMHistoryIcons today, another variation on the Teachmeet theme. My presentation is on 5 quick low and high tech ideas for extending pedagogy here. I’ll embed the slides below, and the relevant links under that. Flipcharts! Have a look at Ian Dawson’s excellent Thinking History site for loads […]
Do we need more Ed Tech Librarians?
In preparation for the nano-presentation I may or may not end up delivering on Friday at TMBETT, I’ve been thinking about some of the things I’ve experienced in the last few months in my role as a Digital Leader on the Hwb project. In particular, about the kind of things that can make the difference […]
Happy New Year – Have some resources!
It’s about time I was blogging again. I’ve been updating various bits of software here and there, and remembered that none of the links on the resources page were working. I’ve moved all the materials that were there over to Google Drive, and re-linked the files. There’s a variety of stuff there, much of it […]
Practical Pedagogies 15 – My session
Image credit: Pete Sanderson My workshop at the Conference was (slightly too grandly?) titled ‘Collaborating within and beyond the classroom in the cloud’. Despite that, a room full of people turned up. This blog post serves as a summary of what we talked about, and some links to resources / sites discussed. You can view […]
Practical Pedagogies Conference – Day 2
Image: Photo from Ewan McIntosh’s session on questioning and feedback. More info / links below — A slightly less rushed reflection of day two, written in the airport after a lovely day strolling around Toulouse, but only posted now as the airport wifi didn’t seem too willing to load my blog! — Following an […]
Practical Pedagogy Conference – Day 1
Image credit: Pete Sanderson Wow – what a packed day. My head is buzzing with stuff, so following a stroll / hike back to the hotel with Alessio and Pete (pausing for a beer en-route) I want to try and make some sense of today before heading out for the evening meal. What follows may […]
#TMSwansea presentation – 10 reasons to use Hwb
I was lucky enough to attend another excellent Teachmeet in Swansea on Wednesday , this one at Prentrehafod School. It’s funny seeing different schools and hosts focus on different elements of the Teachmeet. For example, tonight the audience were in rows, rather than around tables (which I still prefer), but the time limit was strictly […]
Forcing Frameworks or Rethinking Thinking?
Image Credit: Thinking… Please Wait, by Karola Riegler. CC Licensed on Flickr. Following last week’s posts about Computational Thinking across the Curriculum both Glyn Rogers and Anthony Rhys raised some concerns about whether it was something we should be aiming for in schools. Glyn in particular expressed concerns that many subjects have their own […]
Computational Thinking and History – Part 2: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website, Big Data and History
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I spent some time over the summer holidays completing the Google ‘Computational Thinking for Educators’ course. With the final deadline for the final project looming I spent some time this evening pulling together my notes and ideas into a final project plan. The idea is for a three lesson […]