ICT Evangelist on Tour! This week sees me on the road visiting schools that are customers of Frog Education. With schools scrutinising every penny spent; teachers under increasing pressure to deal with issues in their school often with less resources and newly formed MATs and their schools dealing with bigger…
So we’ve been on tour now for two days so playing catch up a little bit. We had a fantastic first day on the tour yesterday. I’m currently writing this in the camper van in Fishguard having just visited the lovely Holy Name School in Fishguard. We are shortly off…
I am very proud to be British and next week I am fortunate enough to be undertaking a huge tour of the UK with Ty Goddard of the Education Foundation and EdtechUK. We will be visiting schools across the country shining a light on some of the amazing work being…
In all of the 700+ blog posts I’ve written, on this site or ghostwritten or published elsewhere have I ever discussed why I do what I do. I got into teaching because I wanted to make a difference. As a youngster, I used to deliver badge classes in my local…
I’ve had a few conversations recently where people have complimented me on the quality of my blog posts about edtech tools when comparing them to others. The feedback I received was lovely and so I thought I’d share some of the things that I always try to do and include…
I am very lucky to do what I do. People often say the loveliest things about the work that I do and it’s always very intrinsically rewarding to know that the work I’ve done has had an impact on a teacher, a school or an individual. As I have shared…
Whether you like it or not data and knowing how to understand, interpret and analyse it is an important facet of the modern educator. There are lots of systems that you probably use every day that hold lots of data; you’ve probably had about 4235242 emails from them recently about GDPR…
Workload has always been an issue in the teaching profession. Over the years I’ve picked up a few handy hints to help me get through it all. There are lots of free tools you can use to help you make your life that little bit easier and take off some…
I’m on a bit of a OneNote mission at the moment, it’s true. The OneNote Class Notebook add-in is simply superb. I wish the features of OneNote persisted i.e. were the same, across platforms though. The experience you get in Windows simply isn’t the same on Mac or iOS. As…
There’s no getting away from it, oracy is an essential skill. It is something that can be taught and there’s a pretty firm evidence base for it given the research quoted in this paper. Add to this the impassioned article here explaining: “What is oracy and why should every child…
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