Teachmeets have been a part of the ‘fringe’ of the Schools History Project (SHP) Conference for several years now, but this year I decided to try something a little different. Inspired in part by Ewan McIntosh’s account of the early Teachmeets and the rules that had been lost along the way (including the ‘No Powerpoint’ […]
‘There’s no such thing as a magic bullet’ – Digital Learning workshop at #SHP16
Just a quick post to link to the materials for this workshop which are now available online at is.gd/shp16 . Thanks to everyone that came to the sessions – really enjoyed chewing over some of these ideas with some great educators. Hopefully more SHP Conference related posts will follow soon! 5481
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 […]
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 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 […]
The best staff room in the world – #TMSwansea2015
Image credit: “staff room communication” from Gary Stager by Robin Hutton. CC Licensed via Flickr You can find this post again at http://is.gd/tmswands I’m off to do 2 minutes at a Swansea Teachmeet tonight about using Twitter and blogs as a global extended staffroom, so I thought I’d pull everything together here as a […]
ICT in Education – Swansea
This morning I’ll be presenting at the ICT in Education event at the Liberty Stadium in Swansea. I’ll be trying to share some of the lesson’s that we’ve learned over the last few years as we’ve embedded digital learning at Olchfa, and some of the tools that have proved to be particularly well received. The […]
#TMSWWales2 – 5 ideas I’ve stolen!
Last week I grabbed a train after school and hopped over to Dyffryn Taf school in Whitland for another Teachmeet organized by Rosie Davies. Among other things, I learned about the ability to plot graphs onto Google Earth using a tool called GE-Graph (Windows only), the idea of creating an ’emotional map’ of a school […]
#TLAB 13 – Rebooting my teaching: Stealing ideas from primary schools and shaking up my secondary classroom
On 16th March I was lucky enough to be the excellent Teaching, Learning and Assessment conference organised by Nick Dennis at Berkhamsted school. Much to my bemusement, not only was I asked to run a session, but several people actually came along! You can see the Prezi embedded below (or click here), but I thought […]
Teachmeet Bett presentation
I’ve been lucky enough to get a ticket for the TeachMeet at BETT on Friday, and I’ve put my name down for a 2 minutes presentation. As we’ve been asked to provide materials in case we don’t get selected, I’m reserving this space now so I can pass the link on to the organisers. If […]