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)...
by Ian Addison | Jan 19, 2013 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
Borrowing (porcupining) the idea from Chris Mayoh, I thought it would be useful to highlight some of my plans for the BETT exhibition. I have a number of presentations and these tend to be for companies I have worked with in the past few years. So I thought I would...
by Ian Addison | Jan 15, 2013 | blogposts, Social Media, Twitter
I have been using Twitter for ages now (a good few years) and I have never got around to sorting out my lists until recently because of time. I would imagine that many others are in a similar boat, only because when I tweeted about lists, a few others asked for more...
by Ian Addison | Jan 12, 2013 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
The first of our presentation times have now been released and my Digital Leaders will be presenting for Tony Parkin on the Stone Computers stand on Wednesday at 1:30pm. They’ll be talking about their role as Digital Leaders and the way in which we use blogging...
by Ian Addison | Jan 5, 2013 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Teachers are often familiar with the term magpie-ing ideas. Borrowing from someone else because it is a great, shiny idea and then adapting it and using it. We use the term ‘magpie’ mostly in Literacy lessons where a child has found a great word and then...
by Ian Addison | Jan 4, 2013 | blogposts, Hardware
Recently we have managed to get a class set of 32 Chromebooks to trial in our school. These were acquired through Ian Nairn at C-Learning (http://c-learning.net/) and are free to schools for a few weeks. We got ours two weeks before Christmas so we’re half-way...
by Ian Addison | Jan 4, 2013 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
This is now the third version of this popular post, (here are tips for BETT2011 and BETT2012) but I thought I should edit it slightly and repost it for people that are new to BETT. Firstly, what is BETT? – http://www.bettshow.com Well it’s a huge event...
by Ian Addison | Dec 31, 2012 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Before looking ahead to 2013, it is probably sensible to review the year that has been already. Last year I wrote a few targets for the year ahead and it’s odd, because many of the things that have happened weren’t on the list! But let’s start with...
