Having felt a bit sniffly over the weekend, I’m only just now emerging from a few days in a lurgy induced haze of lemsip and tissues. As is often the case after a dose of some bug or another it can take a few days to get back to any kind of normal working rhythm. […]
Another 28 days of writing
When I started my teaching career I quickly found huge benefit from being part of the online history teaching community that made up the forums at the schoolhistory.co.uk website. The idea that I could not only ask questions of a range of excellent teachers in a variety of settings but also put up my own […]
Reflecting on #28daysofwriting
Image credit: Reflection by Astrid Westvang. CC Licensed on Flickr. In the last 28 days I have added 25 new posts to this blog (including this one). In most cases, each took 28 minutes to write, proof read, grab an image for an post. By comparison, you’d have to go back to Dec 2012 to […]
It’s good to … chat
Image Credit: Addcym Logo by Bev Evans A few years ago I was invited to join with a group of other teachers from Wales who were using Twitter to help set up #addcym – a weekly twitter chat for those with an interest in Welsh Education (‘addcym’ being short for Addysg Cymru – Learning Wales) […]
What questions can you ask if everyone can see the answers? #28daysofwriting
Image credit: Discussions. CC Licensed on Wikimedia Commons Cross posted on Staffrm.io One of the first tools we get teachers starting with on Hwb+ is the discussions tool. It allows teachers and students to start and contribute to discussions in their class site (in primary) or their subject / yr group site (in secondary). […]
GIGO – The validity of assessment data. #28daysofwriting
Image credit: Garbage Collector by clement127 – CC Licensed on Flickr There’s an expression in computing – Garbage In, Garbage Out. It doesn’t matter how pretty your graphs are, if the data underneath is garbage, you may as well not have bothered. In all the conversations I’m seeing around rethinking assessment at the moment the […]
Staffrm.io #28daysofwriting
I first heard about StaffRm at TMBETT, and this month I’ve begun to notice many of the links tagged with #28daysofwriting linked back to the site. The site seems to be a halfway house between Twitter and a blog – there are still limits on posts (500 words) and much of the functionality in terms […]
Trello – Getting Organised. #28daysofwriting
I missed a few posts last week, but I’m keen to try and hit 28 posts in 28 days. So, I’m going to try and produce four short posts in the next 28 minutes to get me back on track. Yes, I know it’s cheating… I’ve never been the most organised person in the world […]
I have mostly been reading…
Image credit: RSS icon by Jurgen Appelo. CC Licensed on Flickr Didn’t do this last week, but I thought I’d do another summary of some of the things I’ve highlighted in my Feedly account over the last couple of weeks. A fuller list of the blog posts I’ve tagged can be found at ihavemostlybeenreading.tumblr.com Assessment […]
#1bigidea that shapes my practice
Image credit: Be Human Typography by Micu Radu. CC Licensed on Flickr This was originally posted over at staffrm.io Picking up the baton from Mark… What big idea has had the most influence on your practice? “In ten years time they won’t remember what you taught them. But they will remember if you treated them […]