by Ian Addison | Feb 16, 2013 | Blogging, blogposts
Over two years ago, I wrote a blogging post giving some ideas for schools to get started and with the news that Posterous is closing, it makes sense to look at this and see if it is all still relevant. I must declare an interest in that I was a Blogger user, but moved...
by Ian Addison | Feb 11, 2013 | blogposts, Curriculum, Useful Sites/Software
After our success last week with videos for news reports, we have looked to other ways of editing and playing with video online. Offline we were fairly limited to an old version of Windows Movie Maker, but on the web, we suddenly have loads of (free!!) tools to pick...
by Ian Addison | Feb 7, 2013 | blogposts, Curriculum
This is your chance to have your say on the Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 National Curriculum for Computing (the subject formerly known as ICT) Today saw the launch of the draft National Curriculum. ICT is gone and in its place, Computing. To read through the document,...
by Ian Addison | Feb 6, 2013 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Just a quick post but I found this tool (via the ICT Magic Wiki) that I had to share. The tool is WeVideo (www.wevideo.com) and it is an online video editing program. The first reason for loving it is that it uses Google Apps logins to sign in. This means that the...
by Ian Addison | Jan 19, 2013 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Slightly left-field post only applicable to very few of you but hey…. For those travelling to BETT on the train, it is well worth looking into Group Save tickets (http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/times_fares/promotions/pr354fdc0a0400020101fea1769fbf60/details.html)...