Last wednesday saw the publication of ‘Successful Futures’ – the report to the Welsh Government by Graham Donaldson, the man tasked with conducting an independent review of the curriculum and assessment arrangements in schools in Wales. This blog post started as an attempt to provide a summary of the proposals in the report, but at […]
Reflecting on #28daysofwriting
Image credit: Reflection by Astrid Westvang. CC Licensed on Flickr. In the last 28 days I have added 25 new posts to this blog (including this one). In most cases, each took 28 minutes to write, proof read, grab an image for an post. By comparison, you’d have to go back to Dec 2012 to […]
Change to RSS Feed
I’m doing a bit of maintenance on blog, including sorting out several years worth of plugins! As part of that, I’m going to changing the RSS feed from Feedburner back to the native RSS feed from WordPress. As a result if you’re following this blog in your RSS reader you may need to head to […]
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 […]
It’s good to … chat
Image Credit: Addcym Logo by Bev Evans A few years ago I was invited to join with a group of other teachers from Wales who were using Twitter to help set up #addcym – a weekly twitter chat for those with an interest in Welsh Education (‘addcym’ being short for Addysg Cymru – Learning Wales) […]
What questions can you ask if everyone can see the answers? #28daysofwriting
Image credit: Discussions. CC Licensed on Wikimedia Commons Cross posted on Staffrm.io One of the first tools we get teachers starting with on Hwb+ is the discussions tool. It allows teachers and students to start and contribute to discussions in their class site (in primary) or their subject / yr group site (in secondary). […]
GIGO – The validity of assessment data. #28daysofwriting
Image credit: Garbage Collector by clement127 – CC Licensed on Flickr There’s an expression in computing – Garbage In, Garbage Out. It doesn’t matter how pretty your graphs are, if the data underneath is garbage, you may as well not have bothered. In all the conversations I’m seeing around rethinking assessment at the moment the […]
Staffrm.io #28daysofwriting
I first heard about StaffRm at TMBETT, and this month I’ve begun to notice many of the links tagged with #28daysofwriting linked back to the site. The site seems to be a halfway house between Twitter and a blog – there are still limits on posts (500 words) and much of the functionality in terms […]
Trello – Getting Organised. #28daysofwriting
I missed a few posts last week, but I’m keen to try and hit 28 posts in 28 days. So, I’m going to try and produce four short posts in the next 28 minutes to get me back on track. Yes, I know it’s cheating… I’ve never been the most organised person in the world […]
I have mostly been reading…
Image credit: RSS icon by Jurgen Appelo. CC Licensed on Flickr Didn’t do this last week, but I thought I’d do another summary of some of the things I’ve highlighted in my Feedly account over the last couple of weeks. A fuller list of the blog posts I’ve tagged can be found at ihavemostlybeenreading.tumblr.com Assessment […]