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I asked recently on Twitter why trainee teachers should learn about how to use technology in the classroom as part of their training. This was to use in a session I’m doing with some trainee teachers this coming week. The results of the twitter question are pretty interesting and can…
In an attempt to share some of my ideas on teaching and learning and to help cement some of my thoughts in to something more concrete, I aim to write a top 5 list of ideas to help in the classroom each week on topics I’m thinking about at the…
The TeachMeet at BETT was another brilliant affair this year and for the first time ever it was held in the massive arena in the centre of the Excel centre. It was just like the boxing that took place there in the Olympics some education technology giants stood up and…
Now I’m hoping that with a title to the post as it is I don’t end up being put on every filter list going – as educators reading this you will probably know that I am of course talking about ‘Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time’. Championed by @jackiebeere in many…
You may (or may not) have seen / heard about the updated Ofsted guidance about the quality of teaching. If you haven’t, then you were probably enjoying your Christmas – please read the post by Old Andrew – ‘A Christmas Miracle – Ofsted Get It Right For Once’ “Thanks to @ClerktoGovernor for…
I was really inspired by the many reflective and forward thinking posts in the Nurture 13/14 initiative this year. It was actually sparked off in 12/13 by the mysterious @chocotzar on Twitter. Given its success last year, she asked others to have another go this year for 2013/14 – 13 things…
Don’t get me wrong – given my Twitter ID it’s a given that I believe very strongly in using technology to support and enhance learning. The OED states that an evangelist is “a person who seeks to convert others to the Christian faith, especially by public preaching”, so ok… I…
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 them really. Need to be…
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…
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…
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…
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!
#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…
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. [View the story “Has having iPads in your classroom changed teaching & learning?” on Storify]
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…
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…
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…
Those of you that know me will know that I’ve been a massive fan of Explain Everything for a very long time now. It’s widely regarded as one of the best apps for learning on iPad and quite rightly so. As a device for supporting flipped learning it is brilliant….
Imagine Explain Everything with a few less sharing options or annotation features and you’ve got Shadow Puppet. So why use it if you have EE? Well, it’s just the ease, simplicity and opportunity of just quickly being able to interact with images, record your voice and then share with others….
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