Weekly tips
From the ‘finally got round to it’ category comes this idea which has been on the cards since about this time last year in one form or another… As part of my job as SMART coordinator I need to keep… Continue Reading
Month: February 2009
Learning to summarise with Igglepiggle and Makka Pakka.
No, I haven’t lost my mind. For those of you who have never heard of it, ‘In the Night Garden‘ is a TV show produced by Ragdoll (the people behind Teletubbies) and aimed at very small children. Unlike most children’s… Continue Reading
Fantasy Inset
Following the rant in my last post, which seemed to cause a bit of a stir out on Twitter, there were some great ideas for sharing good practice bouncing around in the Edtechroundup meeting on Sunday night. The podcast will… Continue Reading
Advice to anyone delivering inset
Yesterday we had our second annual joint inset with our five link Primary schools. Last year’s was excellent, and we had high hopes for this one. There’s been loads of progress made on both the transition process, and understanding in… Continue Reading
Following up on ‘suggesting a website’
Back in this post I reported on the feedback I’d had from my Twitter PLN on websites they would include in a weekly etips newsletter. Both Doug and Damian left excellent comments on the post, which I started replying to… Continue Reading
Suggest a website
I’m in the process of putting two new blogs together for school to drip feed out teaching ideas, one a week. The first of these will be on using ICT (the first article will go live tomorrow and I’ll put… Continue Reading
Getting teacher feedback with Google Forms
Part of my job within the school is to coordinate the schools provision for More Able and Talented pupils. As a start to the process of moving us towards a new policy and hopefully some more effective practice, I decided… Continue Reading
Giving sixth formers blue teeth
I’m always looking for ways to use existing / cheap tech in the classroom, rather than relying on expensive gadgets. In this case, my sixth form Critical Thinking class were doing a revision lesson on key terms. We drew up… Continue Reading