I wrote this yesterday, but struggled to get it online from my mid-Wales hotel. I’m going to post it now, and add the images tomorrow! There are few things that annoy me more than an image in a teacher-created resource with a big watermarked copyright sign in the middle of it. We (quite rightly) pick […]
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 […]
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 […]
Keeping up to date with more than 140 characters – The joy of RSS
In my last post I mentioned that I’d got my RSS reader down to 0 and I thought it might be useful to share what I meant by that. Many of you will understand the idea of Twitter – you ‘follow’ those people whose updates you want and they are pulled together into one central place. […]
Collaborative revision using Google Docs
Last June I was both honoured and amazed to be awarded with the first ‘National Digital Learning Award’ in the post-16 category for the work my year 13 class had done with online collaborative revision. This year I’ve repeated the work, but also offered it as a tool to my year 11 students, many of […]
Live, online revision with yr 13, using Google Docs
Last year, I had my year 13 class create a revision wiki in the run up to their exams. It worked quite well, but it needed a bit of pump priming with some ICT room time that I just don’t have this year, and I wasn’t completely convinced that my current yr 13s would take […]
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 […]
How I use.. My phone and Flickr
One idea for a series of posts I had was looking at how I use specific pieces of technology in the classroom, so I’ll kick it off with this, and with some luck a few more might be forthcoming in the next few weeks. Back in the summer I finally got my hands on a […]