The fourth idea I shared at my presentation from TMClevedon was to make videos. It has never been easier to make videos and then get them online. I’m going to cover a few quick ideas. 1. Make videos of student work using something like Animoto as a way of showing off what students have produced […]
ten things… #3 Write blogs
It’s never been easier to start your own blog, with a range of free tools out there. Blogger still seems to be a popular one, as is posterous which has the advantage of allowing you to blog by email. I use WordPress as a blogging platform, which has a few more bells and whistles than […]
Ten things… #2 – Read blogs
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 […]
Reflection on TMClevedon
EDITED 12.30pm to add more links One more quick post before I try and get some sleep – because if I don’t get this written now I suspect it will join that great other pile of half written blog posts floating around various sticky notes and rattling around bits of my brain. TMClevedon was all […]
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 […]
Quick and easy ‘lollysticks’ for no hands up
The third in an occasional series of emails to staff with ‘elearning tips’. This is the last of the ones I’ve already sent. I’ll add the others to the blog as and when I send them. —- Dear all, In much of his work, Prof Dylan Wiliam makes a powerful case for moving to a […]
Creating an online space for your class
This is the second of the ‘e-learning update’ emails I sent. While it is written for Olchfa staff, it might be useful for someone out there, perhaps to adapt for your school. —- It’s never been easier to create an online space for your class(es) for any of a multitude of reasons. In this email […]
E-learning updates – Surviving death by 1000 emails
One of the things I’m keen to do in my new role is to ‘drip feed’ ideas to staff via occasional emails. I’m aiming for once a fortnight, but I’m not going to get too hung up if they’re a few days either side of that. It occurred to me that some of them might […]
iPad trial – first steps
One of the last things Nick did before taking up his new post was to set up what would turn out to be three separate iPad trials in the school. The first involves members of the schools senior and extended leadership team using the devices primarily as a productivity tool. The second involved buying iPads […]