Image credit: Toolbox by Royalty Free. CC Licensed on Flickr.com I’m currently on secondment to the Hwb team, so I’m not in school. One of the things this break has given me is a chance to reflect on some of the things I’d be keen to take back (or just take) into my classroom. Some […]
The importance of passion. #28daysofwriting
Image credit: Buzzword Bingo: Tick the Boxes byRon Mader. CC Licensed on Flickr I have a theory. Let’s call it Stacey’s Theory of Messing up a Good Idea #5 1. Somebody in a school comes across something that they believe will make an impact on their teaching. This may be from a course, or (increasingly) […]
Waving my magic wand #28daysofwriting
Image credit: Trekking the grass lands by David J. CC Licensed on Flickr. With Tom now living in Australia it was probably to be expected that many of the first #28daysofwriting blog posts I read were from Australian and New Zealand teachers who were starting their new academic year alongside their new calendar year. I […]
Thank you. #28daysofwriting
Image credit: Thank you by fefeio. CC Licensed on Flickr There was an awards ceremony on in the background the other day, and at some point I started to wonder who I’d thank in the extremely unlikely event that I ever pick up some kind of award. [1. Actually, I did once pick up an […]
A reply to @pepsmccrea from staffrm.io #28daysofwriting
This morning I was replying to Tom’s post about the extent to which ‘micro engagement’ was in some way killing the edublogging community. I included the following comment. Note that I got the name of the site slightly wrong… My real concern is the growth of ‘you’ve got to be a member to comment’ platforms. […]
Half time reflections – #28daysofwriting
After a fairly successful first week in terms of keeping up with the target of writing for 28 minutes each day, this last week has been less successful. For various reasons I’ve chosen to prioritise other things over the writing. Some of these have been work related – wanting to get things done before the […]
#28daysofwriting – Hwb part 2 – Logging in gets you…
No post for three days. Slipping a bit. Once upon a time that would have thrown me and a blog-avoiding wobble would have followed. Now I seem much more able to shrug, go ‘oh well’, and carry on. So, where were we? In my last post I wrote about what ‘Hwb’ is, how it came […]
#28daysofwriting – What’s this Hwb all about then?
It’s probably worth stating my normal disclaimer at this point. This post is a personal reflection and in no way should be taken as an official Welsh Government document. Any errors are mine. An old adage states that you should write about what you know. Right now, most of my working time spent working with […]
Free writing (and five free tools) – #28daysofwriting day 8
Image credit: Miss A Writes a Song by Denise Krebs – CC Licensed on Flickr I’ve got a load of half formed ideas for posts, but I’m not sure enough of my thoughts on any of them. Plus it’s late, and I’m still full of cold. So… One of the activities we used to do […]
#28daysof writing – Day 7 (delayed) – If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all
I’m already 15 minutes in to today’s 28 minutes and I’ve just deleted everything I’ve just written. Not because I didn’t think it was good (although it was far from my finest piece of writing), but because on reading it back I realised it was far too negative. I know the idea is that we […]