It’s about time I was blogging again. I’ve been updating various bits of software here and there, and remembered that none of the links on the resources page were working. I’ve moved all the materials that were there over to Google Drive, and re-linked the files. There’s a variety of stuff there, much of it […]
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 […]
Resources – New posters
I need to go through and sort out the resources section of the site, but I suspect that will end up as a summer job. In the mean time I’ve added some new posters that I’ve created in my room, including question posters, extended writing, source work and SOLO. Feel free to use them if […]
Sharing my resources – help yourself!
My very first teaching website had a section of my resources on it and it’s been on the to do list for ages. I’m a great believer in sharing resources. Not because these are great, but because I can’t help thinking if we all shared a few of the things we create then all our […]
The problem with a lot of e-learning resources part 2.
In the comments to this morning’s post, Mel calls me out: All of the activities we create are for the teacher to use at the front of the class – and we are conscious never to make the resource the teacher Let me have another go at explaining what I meant. I think this might […]
The problem with a lot of “e-learning” resources
I’ve been reviewing a lot of so called e-learning resources recently and trying to work out my my gut reaction to them tends to be so negative. Recently, I had a lightbulb moment. The problem is that the authors have tried to create something that replaced the teacher. The result is slides or animations with […]
Sociology resources
I don’t know if anyone reading this teaches AS Soclology, but in case you do, a couple of things I’ve produced this term that might be useful. They all relate to the AQA Spec and the topic has been Family. All files are Word Docs. Quick on the draw for Social Policy and the family […]