Today marked my 3rd visit to the West of England ICT Conference at UWE and I wasn't disappointed, quite the opposite. For me personally, it provided a clear landmark for me too, for how far I have come on my professional journey since my first visit where I was so…
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Here is my presentation from #TMStJulians this week. Hope you find the tools and information of use. Mark ICTEvangelist TeachMeetStJulians presentation
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Guest blog post by @gavinsmart Tim Rylands seminar at the SWGFL conference was a truly invigorating, inspiring and engaging journey through a range of ideas to use ICT in the classroom to inspire the learners and to make the learning journey more engaging, enjoyable and most importantly inspiring. The seminar…
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Following on from the idea of @ICTSomersetSec who created a Wordle based on the Twitter feed from the hashtag #swgfl11 and some Java plugin problems which meant I couldn’t see it, I decided to make my own, but via Tagxedo. http://bit.ly/swgfl11 http://www.tagxedo.com/art/51e4948d62964dff
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Russell’s powerful seminar at the SWGFL conference took us through lots of persuasive arguments that pervade our consciousness and conscience as we continue to work with students and ICT. He talked, as per the theme of the conference about ICT being in our (their) hands about empowering students by putting…
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LET GO OF THE REINS! Ewan’s keynote kicked us off in the morning and he talked with us emphatically about education needing a real boot up the backside, if you’ll excuse the expression. His passion and enthusiasm reminded me greatly of David Keeling and some of his sentiments in…
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Today was the 13th conference held at UWE, Bristol. The event was attended by what seemed like well over 500 people and there was inspiration abound. In my following posts I’m going to break down some of the seminars, keynotes and experiences I had today at the conference. It was,…
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From Evernote: Introductory keynote | ANTHONY SELDON Starter Chapel Gilbert Scott architecture What is the purpose of education? Govt need to address the issue 6 ways to change educational model. Move it forward. What's wrong? Forget mission statements. Reality is schools are just about exam success. 1. Change to genuine…
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From Evernote: Peter Hyman - unleashing potential Education simply not fitting what they need. Being taught ppl value x, y and z based on exams etc. Then when leave education, then u find out what skills and qualities employers really want. Bridge gap between what academics want and what employment and…
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