Favoured Tweets
@sithers: @KristianStill Thoroughly enjoyed your session on IF in the classroom today – inspirational! Speak soon! http://twitter.com/sithers/status/216263933797994497 Sent with IFTTT
IF by Kristian Kipling – though not a patch on the original
IF If you can keep on reading when all about you Are losing lives and blaming it on their VDU; If you can thrust yourself onward when foes attack you, Make defences for their onlaughts too: If you can wait …
MIGHTYBELL
Let’s keep this simple and to the point. Steve Hargadon dropped me an email asking if I would join him over at Mightybell. A platform his calls “curation and conversation.” And to be fair, it is a good strapline. Mightybell offers …
Bring and Brag
I am here at the Technocamps ‘Bring and Brag’ event listening to committed, animated and ‘expert’ computing teachers and colleagues. Pointers from real life computer teachers, the positives, the concerns, the opportunities; hackasaurus, thimble, BCS Women sending in role model computer experts. …
Holding someone able
Accountability is a phrase I have been hearing a lot lately, even using myself even, as our leadership team strives to both communicate and raise standards at our school. Having read the Fierce Inc blog I’m questioning our / my …
Learning Game Design
Another great RSS link, another great TED talk delivered by a disruptive, thoughtful and adventurous educator, Paul Anderson; backed up by his website and a YouTube channel overflowing with flipped style tutorial videos. A lot of what Paul promotes reminds me of both what …
Twitter tidy
Every once in a I spring clean my Twitter feed. Usually with a change of job focus or an addition of a new responsibility. There are a number of very useful services out there to help you review your account, but my …
Humble leadership
A so-called “super head” who helped turn around the fortunes of London’s primary schools has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Sir Robin Bosher had spearheaded improvements at Fairlawn Primary School, in Lewisham, when he was asked to take …