I’m away from home this week doing training up in mid-Wales, and this evening following a great walk around Aberystwyth I’m eyeballs deep in various sharepoint geekery trying to answer questions that have been posed to me over the last few days. As a result, I really wasn’t sure what I was going to write […]
Who you gonna call? The E-safety helpline (9)
We spent some of today’s training day talking about the various ways that schools can make sure their e-safety policies and practices are up to date (there are a range of links and resources in the E-Safety section of Hwb that are free to access even if you teach outside Wales). The discussion moved on […]
What might Digital Literacy / Competence look like in terms of lessons? (day 8)
While we’re waiting to hear what the Welsh Government’s response will be to the Donaldson Report, it was noticeable how many companies were tweeting within 24 hours of the report’s publication that they could provide your school with a solution to ‘Digital Competence’. Best of luck to them, although you might want to ask them […]
Copyright free images for teachers and learning (7)
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 […]
I have mostly been reading… (6)
A few things that stood out this evening when I reviewed the starred items in Feedly. The full list is at http://ihavemostlybeenreading.tumblr.com/. I just need to work out how to get StaffRm recommendations in there… Want to share knowledge organisers? Following some recent conversations about ‘knowledge organisers’, this post by James Theobald contains a link […]
Should we start comment coding our teaching resources? (5)
***File under random pondering*** Flicking through Twitter this evening I saw a cartoon linking to this article about the importance of adding comments to code. If you’ve never tried a bit of coding yourself, one of the options when writing code is to add comments for others who may look at the code, but which […]
If it were my home (day 4)
One of the ways I’m going to be able sustain this posting-every-day malarky is to have blog posts sharing links to online tools and resources that I either use myself, or have seen recommended. If it were my home comes via the excellent ‘Free Technology 4 Teachers’ blog maintained by Richard Byrne. The site allows […]
Computational thinking – probably not as tricky as it sounds! (Day 3)
Computational thinking is something I’ve heard about before from Tom Crick and others, but often struggled to get my head around. With a growing number of primary schools in Wales looking at using J2Code through Hwb as a way of delivering some kind of computing to their pupils while we wait to see what our […]
You can’t just put a badge on it. (Day 2)
For a while now I’ve been interested in the idea of using badges as an alternative assessment method. I mentioned it a few years ago as the possible basis of a different way of working for a Yr 7 IT curriculum (an idea that didn’t get implemented for a whole range of reasons I won’t […]
Back to the blog – Don’t break the chain
After the veritable splurge of blog posts that was February while I was involved in Tom Barrett’s #28daysofwriting, things have pretty much dried up around here again. Much of March was focused on trying to comment on other people’s blogs (something I’ve actually kept up better than blogging) but it would appear that without some […]