Wonderful Problems
4. How do (or would) you respond to someone who says ‘The kids know more about technology than I do. How do I handle this?’ I’d say that’s a wonderful problem to have. The key to remember here is that …
Teaching
Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Becta or Ofsted?
Who gets my attention this evening? Reading about the demise of Becta or preparing for Ofsted? The immediate job at hand, Ofsted inspection tomorrow, or the immediate future of iCT, Becta? Ofsted have been expected for 3-4 weeks now but …
Important and Urgent then Do It.
I am sure you have come across the decision making matrix / Covey’s quadrants in one form or another. For 3 years, whilst working at Tauntons College, I faced a copy the matrix when sitting at my desk, in an …
How Long Before…
I am sitting in the garden, relaxing, watching my little boy ‘pottle’ and play (Saturday 24th). I have a Twitter conversation in the background talking and exploring Teach Meet Moodle and I am browsing my RSS feeds. Meantime I have …
Gapminder Updates – Great Post
Hat tip to Dan Stucke for his great post on the updates to Gapminder.org …a fantastic tool for visualising a wealth of World data on lovely scatter graphs that animate changes through the years. (Dan Stucke) Like Dan, I too have …
BectaX
BectaX is a one day conference which will congregate the very best thinkers and doers from education, digital media and policy. Together they will find pragmatic solutions to aid the transition towards 21st Century schools in a connected world I …
Office 2010 Free e-book
Having trialled Office 2010, there were some very nice features in there, but I would have to say that I probably got the most professional benefit from Outlook 2010. Question is, having only moved to Office 2007 this year, are …
That’ll Toondoo Nicely
I am a big fan of Comic Life. I often use a simple 3 panel Garfield comic creator to get the students to explain basic concepts, but today the site was blocked?!?! So, I dipped into my Delicious links and …