BlastFollow!
‘I just don’t get it?! Why would you want to… tweet! Look, I will give it a go for a few days and I will see how I get on. No promises mind. I am no internet champion you know …
Year: 2010
Moodle 2 (Preview 4)
This morning (back in July, another draft post) I used my PPA hour to have a good nose around the progress that is being made with Moodle 2. There is an official QA Testing site openly available upon which the Moodle team have …
Microsoft Office Education Add-Ins
Its worth spending 10 minutes on the Microsoft Education Blog to check out the new add-ins and templates for Office 2007 and Office 2010. All the downloads can be found here with specific information Mouse Mischief here. I am most interested in …
Microsoft Summer Camp
It’s been a positive first day, meeting plenty of enthusiastic and passionate teachers, twitter folk and online collaborators, making new connections is always a welcomed experience. Smartphones are commonplace, laptops are charged and staff are ready for action. This group of educators …
Adding Struggle to Learning
I am very proud of myself this morning. After 6 days of perservence, forum reading and trial and error learning, I finally managed to get a new experimental Delicious (online bookmarking) feature to work – blog posting. Basically information stored in your Delicious …
links for 2010-08-15
YouTube – Learning Without Frontiers (tags: lwf technology lordputtnam youtube) Calvin & Hobbes Search Engine – by Bing (tags: calvin hobbe cartoon strip)
Leader
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. John Quincy Adams
Calvin and Hobbes
Whilst teaching at Taunton’s College I would often use the wisdom of Calvin and Hobbes to explain concepts and contemporary issues. What is Sport? What is Play? Deviance (cheating, misuse drugs, gamesmanship) Why are rules necessary? Plus, I would use the cartoon …