by Ian Addison | Oct 29, 2012 | blogposts, Presentations / Teachmeets
The first Teachmeet of this academic year is to be held at Titchfield Primary School, Fareham, on Thursday 15th November. We will aim to kick-off at 4:30pm and will finish around 6pm. There will also be the chance to go for food afterwards too. Arrival is welcome from...
by Ian Addison | Oct 21, 2012 | blogposts, Google Apps
This is the first in a series of posts looking at how to setup Google Apps for Education. The original blog post has been viewed over 7,000 times but it is time for a revamp and to make the steps easier. As the posts develop, they will show you how to register your...
by Ian Addison | Sep 2, 2012 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
For many teachers, this week sees the return to the classroom and I have found that there are so many places to get great ideas and resources so I thought I would share some that I have been using lately. Some are old favourites, some are relatively new sites....
by Ian Addison | Sep 2, 2012 | blogposts, Social Media, Twitter
Following on from Simon McCloughlin’s (@simcloughlin) plea on his blog, I have decided to do the same on here. As of this week I will be back in the classroom with my own class following two years covering PPA across the school. One of the (many) things that I...
by Ian Addison | Aug 31, 2012 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
This term in Year 3-4 we are learning about the Tudors so I have made a playlist to share all of Horrible History videos I could find. The YouTube Playlist is available here: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL572B96B358463707 and I must say thank you to...
by Ian Addison | Aug 21, 2012 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff, Useful Sites/Software
You know all of those photographs that you take in school? What do you do with them? We take thousands, in fact last year it seems we took 28,000 of them. Many of them are never edited and are simply uploaded onto the Photo drive on the server. So what happens to...
by Ian Addison | Jul 29, 2012 | blogposts, Hardware, Playbook
I have had the Google Nexus 7 tablet for about 10 days now and I thought I should probably share what I think about it. Firstly, I am not really a gadget person. Actually I am, but I am not the person that buys the gadget on the first day of release and then must...
by Ian Addison | Jul 25, 2012 | Articles / Writing, blogposts, Curriculum
I wrote a little while ago about the project that I have been involved with for most of this year and now, it is finally available. I saw finally, but it is still less than 6 months since I was initially asked to write it! The Rising Stars’ book...
by Ian Addison | Jul 17, 2012 | blogposts, Presentations / Teachmeets, Useful Sites/Software
I know that this will shock many people but until about 24 hours ago, I’d never used Scratch. Never. I have seen Miles Berry present on it twice and have also worked with many others (Pete Stuart, Simon Hunt etc) who have talked about it, but I have never sat...
by Ian Addison | Jul 10, 2012 | Assessment, blogposts
I’ve tried and tried but I simply can’t put it off any longer. From September we will need to have a system in place for assessing ICT. I need to know which children are doing well in ICT and I need them (and their teachers) to know what the next steps...
