Have you been hearing how great Twitter can be as a teacher to support your CPD and enhance and inform your practice? Well the rumours are right! Below is a short screencast focussing on Twitter basics and educational hashtags (thanks to @TeamTait for the infographic) to help get you started! You…
I’ve just had the pleasure of reading the latest book in the Perfect series by @shaun_allison, ‘Perfect Teacher-Led CPD‘. As someone who has written one of the books in the series, I always know, having gone through the copy-edit process, that the books are always put together really well, having…
Teachmeets are everywhere now. The great sharing and practice available, for free, available to teachers by teachers is unprecedented. so how can you make the most out of your Teachmeet experience? What should you be likely to expect and how can you get the most out of attending one? Why…
The more I learn as a grown up, the less I know that I know. There are vast bodies of knowledge out there that I have not had contact with and really could probably avoid in my day to day life. So why shouldn’t I? It would certainly be easier….
The secret of teaching success isn’t mythical. It isn’t even that hard to work out. Watch any amazing teacher in their classroom and it is clear. The key to teaching success is to care about your learners and build relationships with them. For them to know that you really give…
Like Zoë Elder, I’m doing some work around Teachers’ Standards at the moment. Following on from seeing her collection of ‘Quipio‘ posters in a post here, I thought I’d make my own to use both electronically in presentations and to print out a bit bigger and use elsewhere, such as…
Teacher confidence in using technology is often a problem for schools that are pushing for colleagues to use technology to enhance learning within their educational establishment. Ensuring that teachers are confident when coming to use technology is a big deal. There are lots of ways in which you can help…
In recent times I’ve been lucky enough to be asked to speak at a number of different events. Ive delivered at In-house INSET sessions on iPads and learning, Web 2.0 tools, how to embed EdTech in to learning. That’s not including TeachMeet Clevedon events and all of the other TeachMeets…
I thought after all of the amazing feedback from last week’s event (was it really this time last week??!) I thought it was only fair that I pen my own response and thoughts about the night. Before the night even started, staff and students were working hard to make the…
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…
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