Following meeting the lovely Catherine Cains from Brislington Enterprise College, Bristol, I was asked to present at her TeachMeet following on from her BITES event at Brislington. I was unfortunately unable to make it, but recorded these 20 ideas in 5 minutes for her which you can now see on…
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Ok, so apart from being really inspiring about what technology can do and perhaps for live mixing of tracks in a DJ style in Music lessons; and perhaps in Media lessons, or perhaps creating a video montage quickly and easily of Sports Day or a trip you’ve been…
In a time where the future of the subject I teach and the moniker I use here on my blog and on Twitter seems to be under constant attack (that’s ICT if you hadn’t worked it out) you’d think I’d find it difficult to find reasons to be cheerful. What’s…
Many is the time when I’ve been considering ways to flip my classrooms. MentorMob provides an excellent way of doing this. A web 2.0 tool to share ‘learning playlists’ – a bit like micro favourite lists as you might see on delicious, the site allows members of the community to…
I am deeply honoured to have been asked to host #ukedchat again this coming Thursday. It’s a real opportunity to connect with hundreds of teachers and discuss topics related to teaching & learning and a great experience to boot. If you’d like to help shape the discussion for next…
I’ve been wanting to write a follow up to my popular 1st little book for some time now, but I really wanted to make sure that all of the ideas that I put in to it were really tried and tested. That they really have got the pedagogical impact that teachers…
One of my lessons this week required students to break down and get their heads around the summative project brief for their coursework. Historically I have found that despite completing a variety of activities to get students to engage in reading the instructions and breaking down what is required of…
This post features the live CoverItLive update and feed for TeachMeet Clevedon taking place May 3rd 2012, 1730 – 2030 UK time.
So this coming Thursday, TeachMeet Clevedon is taking place (if you hadn’t noticed! One application I’ve been looking to examine for some time is ‘CoverItLive’ – I’ve heard great things about it from the likes of @CheriseDuxbury and @JamiePortman on his great post on the app/topic here with some fab ideas. I…
It has been obvious to me for some time now that any learning that is based around use of an iPad should really not be hung on one particular app. That it is about a flow of work, be it individual, or collaborative. Yes, there are some powerful productivity apps…
This post is really an update following my recent posts about Twitter and the ideas gained through sharing my tweets with others. For a much longer write up, this post by Jon Tait inspects the experience in more detail really well here:Â http://www.woodham.org.uk/edutait/ The original post has had more than 1000…
Inspired by my previous post about collaboration across Twitter, Jon (@TeamTait) Tait has been busy again with a new infographic on the topic:
So it happened ‘like’ this. I followed @elearninglaura I saw on her profile she had a blog (good it is too) I saw a post on her blog about a tool for making your own infographics (Piktochart) I thought cool – @fullonlearning (who also has a superb blog) will like that and so…
Thanks to the wonderful blog of Laura Knight (@elearninglaura) http://www.elearninglaura.net/ I stumbled across the brilliant tool – PiktoChart where you can easily make your own cool infographics. The best thing is that you can create some cool infographics in the easy to use UI really easily and for free. Okay, for some…
Like every teacher all over the world, I’m a busy fellow. The time I can spend tweeting and checking my tweets is very finite. I’m torn though because tweeting with other educators is something that I love to do. It is simply the best staff room in the world with…
Further to the flipped learning discussion on #ukedchat last week and Daniel Edwards‘ brilliant organic post about planning flipped learning in light of OFSTED requirements here, I thought it would be opportune to mention the O2 Learn site. This is a site which has literally hundreds of screencasts and videos…
When thinking about using an iPad to support learning, it is important to remember that the iPad supports learning. It is not going to do the teaching for you. Maths learning is no exception. That said, innovative approaches to using multiple apps can really help with the support of the…
Tonight I’m hosting my first #ukedchat session on Twitter. I’m really looking forward to it. There have been changes in the ‘lead’ over the course of the past week, with Flipped Learning taking an early lead and then ‘Secret Spaces’ fighting back. The poll had 234 votes and 768 views….
Who was it who said that an iPad is only a consumption device??! Here are some examples of some ICT related pages a student of mine created using Comic Life on the topic of ‘Future Developments in Technology’ …
I was really pleased to come across the SketchShare app the other week. I immediately saw some really great potential with it. Some of these key features made it a no brainer for me in an education space: 1) Supporting group work upto 4 people can collaborate anywhere in the…









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