Over the summer I started Google’s ‘Computational Thinking for Educators‘ course. With the deadline for the final project submission looming, I’ve been reviewing what I wrote and putting the finishing touches to my final project, which I’ll post tomorrow. If you’re not sure what ‘Computational Thinking’ is, it’s a set of thinking tools to allow […]
There’s always a reason not to
Image Credit: Zen Pencils The more observant among you will have noticed that I’ve haven’t been updating the blog for a little while. There’s always a reason not to… I want to clear my feed reader first I need time to write that awesome post rattling around in my head I’m just going to […]
New phone. Time to review some apps!
Blogging this directly from my new phone with the WordPress App. While I’ve always loved macs, I tend to prefer Android to iOS and I’ve gone for a LG this time. Any new phone is a time to review some apps and widgets. So far I’m really pleased with the SwiftKey keyboard, especially the built […]
Fall of a bike. Get straight back on
So I broke the chain. Ten posts in, but last night, having been away all week, I just couldn’t bring myself to get off the sofa and open the laptop. So, I’ll start the count again and see if I can make it beyond ten this time. What I have learned over the last ten […]
Zen Pencils (day 10)
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 […]