Happy New Year! After two days of complete and utter shell shock I think I found my teaching feet today. So I thought I’d put a quick blog post together highlighting a couple of things from the week in the vague hope that it might become a habit 1. In ICT we’ve introduced a […]
Badges update
Last term I spoke at the Teachnocamps Bring and Brag about an idea I’d had to move the KS3 ICT lessons into an Open Badges style environment, where students where free to work through tasks and earn badges as they went. It was agreed with managers that we’d trial the idea with yr 7, but […]
#openbadges / #digitialstudies / ICT update
I don’t think I’ve been prouder of receiving any tweet than the one that appeared yesterday from Mark Clarkson: This blog by @davestacey is making#digitalbadges harder to resist (although the scope of his vision still scares me!).http://is.gd/PY6rU9 No one’s ever been scared by the scope of my vision before! I quite like it… Anyway, I […]
How digital badges could revolutionise ICT teaching – a plan.
There’s a growing buzz at the moment around digital badges, and I’m going to try and put down my thoughts, specifically on the following: Why I was initially so negative, and why I now think I was wrong One possible vision for the delivery of ICT embedding student choice and badges. I first came across […]
Databases starter
Kicking off the year 9 ICT scheme of work with databases, and I wanted a starter that didn’t involve people sat around answering quick fire questions. So, I created the following headers, each on an A4 sheet – ID No, first name, second name, favourite colour. I then printed 5 A4 sheets, one each with […]
e-safety and e-learning advice in planners.
Back in this post from last year Ollie Bray talked about the pages he had arranged to have added to Musselburgh school’s planners on effective searching and online safety. I’ve been reviewing our planners for next year, and as well as updating some pages on SMART, I’ve also used the opporuntity to adapt Ollie’s stuff […]