Who should lead on digital in your school? It’s a question I’m often asked. Many think it should fall upon the shoulders of the Head of Computing, as that’s the most logical person to carry forward any digital projects. Some think it should fall to somebody with teaching and learning…
Good morning and welcome to Day Twenty Two of the AppVent Calendar! Today’s app, I think, is very timely as many parents look to satisfy their children’s craving for more technology at Christmas. I know just from my own personal experience how much my own children at 8 and 10…
We all need inspiration. Sometimes it’s the pay packet at the end of the month which motivates us, sometimes it’s job satisfaction, sometimes it’s a tweet we’ve seen or a blog post or book we’ve read. Sometimes it’s a colleague or a lesson of theirs that you’ve seen. All of…
Twitter’s great. Don’t get me wrong. But things have been afoot for sometime. You see the Twitter that I talk and share about is the best staffroom in the world. It’s a place where whenever you ask a question, someone will come to your help. It’s easy. It’s better than…
It has been my privilege to work with the teachers across the North Tyneside Learning Trust a number of times this year developing student digital leaders in a number of schools across the trust. It was this work which led to the formation of the Digital Leader Academy which you…
It’s no secret that I am a big advocate for student voice through the digital leader initiative. I’ve seen the initiative become such huge success stories for those schools that develop student digital leader groups. It was from this that I developed the digital leader academy to continue my work in…
I’ve been working with RM Education at their Seminars this past week. My brief was to share with delegates ideas that would bring about memorable lessons for pupils. In the planning phases I was thinking about what I could do. How I could stand in front of 100 or so…
On April 23, Sheli Blackburn and I will be hosting a Digital Leader Showcase event which will simultaneously be broadcast live on YouTube via Google Hangouts on Air. Schools and their Digital Leaders are invited to sign up to present. The event is being sponsored by a number of generous…
Further to my recent post I thought it fair that I write about my #teachinghighlight. Since we first started talking about it on Twitter earlier in the week I have been thinking long and hard about my highlight. There are some fantastic tales out there about the lovely moments in…
In readiness for the start of next year I’ve made a video to run on plasmas around the school and show in tutor time to engage students and get them to apply. The video was made using Apple’s relatively unknown ‘Motion 5‘. It’s billed as a companion to Final…
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