Image credit: Pete Sanderson My workshop at the Conference was (slightly too grandly?) titled ‘Collaborating within and beyond the classroom in the cloud’. Despite that, a room full of people turned up. This blog post serves as a summary of what we talked about, and some links to resources / sites discussed. You can view […]
Practical Pedagogies Conference – Day 2
Image: Photo from Ewan McIntosh’s session on questioning and feedback. More info / links below — A slightly less rushed reflection of day two, written in the airport after a lovely day strolling around Toulouse, but only posted now as the airport wifi didn’t seem too willing to load my blog! — Following an […]
Practical Pedagogy Conference – Day 1
Image credit: Pete Sanderson Wow – what a packed day. My head is buzzing with stuff, so following a stroll / hike back to the hotel with Alessio and Pete (pausing for a beer en-route) I want to try and make some sense of today before heading out for the evening meal. What follows may […]
#TMSwansea presentation – 10 reasons to use Hwb
I was lucky enough to attend another excellent Teachmeet in Swansea on Wednesday , this one at Prentrehafod School. It’s funny seeing different schools and hosts focus on different elements of the Teachmeet. For example, tonight the audience were in rows, rather than around tables (which I still prefer), but the time limit was strictly […]
Forcing Frameworks or Rethinking Thinking?
Image Credit: Thinking… Please Wait, by Karola Riegler. CC Licensed on Flickr. Following last week’s posts about Computational Thinking across the Curriculum both Glyn Rogers and Anthony Rhys raised some concerns about whether it was something we should be aiming for in schools. Glyn in particular expressed concerns that many subjects have their own […]
Computational Thinking and History – Part 2: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website, Big Data and History
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I spent some time over the summer holidays completing the Google ‘Computational Thinking for Educators’ course. With the final deadline for the final project looming I spent some time this evening pulling together my notes and ideas into a final project plan. The idea is for a three lesson […]
Computational Thinking and History (Part 1)
Over the summer I started Google’s ‘Computational Thinking for Educators‘ course. With the deadline for the final project submission looming, I’ve been reviewing what I wrote and putting the finishing touches to my final project, which I’ll post tomorrow. If you’re not sure what ‘Computational Thinking’ is, it’s a set of thinking tools to allow […]
There’s always a reason not to
Image Credit: Zen Pencils The more observant among you will have noticed that I’ve haven’t been updating the blog for a little while. There’s always a reason not to… I want to clear my feed reader first I need time to write that awesome post rattling around in my head I’m just going to […]
New phone. Time to review some apps!
Blogging this directly from my new phone with the WordPress App. While I’ve always loved macs, I tend to prefer Android to iOS and I’ve gone for a LG this time. Any new phone is a time to review some apps and widgets. So far I’m really pleased with the SwiftKey keyboard, especially the built […]
Fall of a bike. Get straight back on
So I broke the chain. Ten posts in, but last night, having been away all week, I just couldn’t bring myself to get off the sofa and open the laptop. So, I’ll start the count again and see if I can make it beyond ten this time. What I have learned over the last ten […]