Back in the old days (you know, before Twitter) I read blogs from teachers around the world to get ideas. I suspect this is the fault of Doug Belshaw who I ‘knew’ through the school history.co.uk teachers forum. He started blogging, I started reading. He blogged about other people, so I started reading their blogs […]
Ten things… #1 – Twitter
This is the first of ten posts, building on my list of ten things I learned from rebooting my teaching that I presented at Teachmeet Clevedon. You can actually find a much better explanation of why you should bother with Twitter in this 5 minute talk from David Gale from the Teachmeet! —- Issac Newton […]
10 things I learned from rebooting my teaching – Presentation to #TMClevedon
This evening enough I was lucky enough to be one of the people who got a seat at TMClevedon. One of the things I love most about TeachMeets in the way that this simple idea can be taken and applied to a whole range of contexts, but they do it big in Clevedon, and this […]
Technoteach Bring and Brag – Swansea 21st June
This post was edited on 26.6 to add a video of the talk. I’m (hopefully) speaking tonight at the Teachmeet style ‘Bring and Brag’ in Swansea, part of the CasWales2012 Conference being held tomorrow. Im going to be talking about re-imagining ICT, a development of the previous posts from here and here. I’ll embed the […]
Technology for teaching, learning and CPD – PS Session May 2012
Last week I was asked to present to the current cohort of PGCE students on digital technology. I decided to try and make it as hands on as possible so booked us in to a computer room. Conscious of the time available, and the variety of previous experience, I set the students three pre session […]
Forgetting my big idea (or How I made my GTA video)
I’ve traditionally been suspicious of any kind of programme linked to one specific platform. I had reservations about taking part in the NGfL Cymru Innovative Education Forum as it was a Microsoft only affair (but did it anyway!), but after hearing Ian Addison talk at at Teachmeet about the Google Teacher Academy I decided that […]
My submission to the Review of Digital Classroom Teaching Task and Finish Group
In September last year, the Education Minister Leighton Andrews announced a Task and Finish group to look into digital classroom teaching in Wales. We discussed a number of the issued raised in two special #addcym chats, but I was determined to make a submission myself. With the deadline looming, I’ve finally written it. I’ve included […]
7 offline ideas in 7 minutes
I caught up with Ian Addison’s presentation for TeachMeet Midlands on 7 ideas in 7 minutes on Saturday morning, and later on was intrieged by Tom Barret’s ideas that he should follow it up with 7 offline ideas. I’ve been planning for this week’s ESTYN inspection all weekend, but couldn’t shake the idea and used […]
Teachmeet Cardiff
I was lucky enough to be able to go along to Thursday night’s Teachmeet in Cardiff, which showed again the versatility of the idea as applied to a twilight session. There were a few difference to the Teachmeets I’d done before. The random name generator had done it’s work ahead of the meeting, and instead […]
#TMCardiff – Handing over the curriculum, or, How I stopped worrying and learned to love the chaos
My second presentation to the recent Cardiff Teachmeet was supposed to accompanied by the slides below, but for whatever reason the filter wouldn’t let Google Docs through, so I scribbled down what I could remember and just talked about some of the stuff that I’d been doing and why I thought it was important. In […]