What have you been reading? I've noticed a few people writing about the books they've been reading and so I thought I'd share what floated my boat in 2013. I tend to keep the impacts of teaching and learning research and personal developments to myself - I should blog about…
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My stats for the year are slightly skewed as they only take in to account visits from April onwards when this new site and domain went live, however I'm still very humbled I get any visitors. Thanks for checking by and reading my ramblings. View the full report here. Thanks…
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Be happy and welcome in the new year with your learners. My timeline is full of teachers who are anxious about returning to work on Monday. There has been a flurry of planning, marking and general knot-tying of stomachs about the demands and responsibilities that may face us in the…
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Obviously not exhaustive, but a few more 'creative' ideas for using Apple's brilliant free piece of software, iBook Author rather than the traditional ways you might use it. 1 - An obvious use it to write your own iBook about your teaching practice, so that you can share your ideas…
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Just a short video to show how to search for images on Google Image search using existing images. I find this particularly useful when either searching for higher resolution versions of images I already have or when I'm looking for similar images that I already have. Have fun!
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#Nurture1314 Reflection: I guess it's somewhat fitting that in what may have been one of my most successful (professionally) to date, this is my 251st post on my blog and that since starting counting in April my blog has had more than 126,000 unique visitors. Reflecting upon what I've managed…
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Following discussions on Twitter, I combined comments, replies and posts to the question at the title of this post in to a Storify - read the responses below.
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Workflow - the way in which work flows from one application or person to another in order to progress and develop said work either by addition or development through peer, teacher formative feedback and critique. Anyone want to add anything to that to develop the explanation further when it comes…
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I'm a big fan of Twitter - short messages, getting your point across succinctly... with that in mind, I'm going to keep this post short and sweet. Just five tried and tested techniques to assist with questioning in your classroom. One of the features of an outstanding classroom is one where…
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I've been struck recently by the lack of coverage of e-safety by some of the people I talk with on Twitter and elsewhere. E-safety and the safeguarding of our young people online is of paramount importance. I'll be writing more about this in the near future, but as part of…
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