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. […]
Adobe Voice / Office Mix – a couple of new tools
Finally got my RSS reader down to zero, and noticed a couple of new products that are firmly on my ‘must investigate’ list. The first is Adobe Voice, which I saw on Twitters as described as being like Photostory – add some images, record a voice over and voila – a video. Potentially very useful […]
Giant mindmaps!
I’ve come to the end of the A Level course with my yr 13s, and we were discussing last week how they wanted to spend our last few lessons. We agreed that we needed to recap the main ideas of the course, but rather than me rattle through it, I revived an idea from a […]
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 […]
What? No blogging?
So it’s been a while. (Happy New Year, by the way) There are a myriad of reasons (excuses?) that I haven’t done much blogging in the last twelve months, E-learning coordinator role is taking up more time at school I don’t think I can remember a busier year at school My kids are growing up […]