Mokita
Mokita – that which everyone knows and no one speaks of. The term “mokita” derives from The Papuans of New Guinea, a term used to refer to these unspoken issues. In fact it is more than just a common phrase in …
Greenfoot – Introducing The Sinepost
I was absolutely sold by Neil Brown’s (@twistedsq) passion for Greenfoot. I knew I would not be able to recreate that passion in a blog post myself, so I asked Neil if he would consider contributing a guest post himself. …
Live web page plugin
LiveWeb, and officetimeline are free download plugins for Powerpoint. There are quite a few more, (plex / xpadder) but these two plugins I use quite regularly. Liveweb simple lets you insert a live website into your presentation, avoiding having to close the presentation and use …
Quest at Games Britannia
There have been some very positive reviews of the Games Britannia event held in Rotehrham this week and numerous tweets filtering through. For those of you that drop in here for your Text Adventure fix, read about Alex Warrens (Quest …
Online Booking for Parents and Carer Meetings
This term we road tested our online booking system for Parent and Carer Meetings and last night was our Year 10 Parents and Carers Evening. In addition to offering the online booking system we as also offered / encouraged departments to hold their …
Leadership Questioning
I have read a great deal of the practice of questioning as a teacher. Watched and learnt alot from Ted Wragg Teachers TV videos and Dylan Williams on The Classroom Experiment, trialled the pose, pause, pounce and now bounce method, the ‘magic pocket …
Favoured Tweets
@sarsboy: There is an old team known as Spain/Who just won a title again/To claim their medallions/They beat the Italians/By 4 goals to 0 in Ukraine http://twitter.com/sarsboy/status/219534317087498240 Sent with IFTTT
Lesson Plans, Maps, Journeys
A rather busy week has meant I was sifting through a ladened Google Reader. For the most part it is a headline filtering although I find myself clicking through, digging deeper into more posts these days. This weekend a ‘lesson …