Image Credit: Zen Pencils The more observant among you will have noticed that I’ve haven’t been updating the blog for a little while. There’s always a reason not to… I want to clear my feed reader first I need time to write that awesome post rattling around in my head I’m just going to […]
New phone. Time to review some apps!
Blogging this directly from my new phone with the WordPress App. While I’ve always loved macs, I tend to prefer Android to iOS and I’ve gone for a LG this time. Any new phone is a time to review some apps and widgets. So far I’m really pleased with the SwiftKey keyboard, especially the built […]
Fall of a bike. Get straight back on
So I broke the chain. Ten posts in, but last night, having been away all week, I just couldn’t bring myself to get off the sofa and open the laptop. So, I’ll start the count again and see if I can make it beyond ten this time. What I have learned over the last ten […]
Computational thinking – probably not as tricky as it sounds! (Day 3)
Computational thinking is something I’ve heard about before from Tom Crick and others, but often struggled to get my head around. With a growing number of primary schools in Wales looking at using J2Code through Hwb as a way of delivering some kind of computing to their pupils while we wait to see what our […]
You can’t just put a badge on it. (Day 2)
For a while now I’ve been interested in the idea of using badges as an alternative assessment method. I mentioned it a few years ago as the possible basis of a different way of working for a Yr 7 IT curriculum (an idea that didn’t get implemented for a whole range of reasons I won’t […]
Back to the blog – Don’t break the chain
After the veritable splurge of blog posts that was February while I was involved in Tom Barrett’s #28daysofwriting, things have pretty much dried up around here again. Much of March was focused on trying to comment on other people’s blogs (something I’ve actually kept up better than blogging) but it would appear that without some […]
#TLAB15 – E-learning across the curriculum: reflections of what worked, what didn’t, and why
I’m back in Berkhamsted today for the third Teaching, Learning and Assessment Conference organised by the sickeningly enthusiastic Nick Dennis. This year I’m leading a workshop session looking at effective e-learning across the curriculum. You can find the slides for the session below, and links to some of the things I talk about below that. […]
Cross curricular serendipity
Image credit: Serendipity by Laura Dantonio. CC Licensed on Flickr. ***File this under ‘when I rule the world’ One of the problems in secondary schools is that it’s hard for teachers to know what’s going on in other departments. Without that knowledge, opportunities to link learning across subjects can be missed. It struck me that […]
Wot? No blog?
Despite signing up for the second 28daysofwriting month, March has been a bit of a bust. A combination of spending some more time with the family, generally feeling tired and trying to get a whole of work stuff sorted before the end of term has left me with little oomph for blogging. The month so […]
We need more Teachmeets! (Help me make that happen)
Image credit: Bev Evans. Pic of me at what became known as TMBev – the first(?) Teachmeet in South West Wales, held in August 2010 in Pembroke Dock by the much missed Bev. I’ve had this idea in the back of my mind for a while, but *that* post by David Rogers has given me […]