by Ian Addison | Jul 6, 2012 | Articles / Writing, blogposts
It all started way back in January 2012. It feels like it was a lot longer ago, but it really was less than 6 months ago when I was asked. It was between BETT and LWF to give you a timescale. Would I like to write a book about ICT for Rising Stars? I thought that it...
by Ian Addison | Jul 1, 2012 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
I had to write a quick post about a truly stunning website that launched recently. I was lucky enough to see it in the first few days of it being online and since then it has grown and grown. The site in question? The Literacy Shed. Now, literacy has always been...
by Ian Addison | Jun 16, 2012 | Blogging, blogposts
I’d like to say thank you for all of the votes for my blog in both the ‘Teacher’s blog of the year’ and ‘Most Influential Blog of the Year’. Voting has now closed and this blog was outside of the top ten, but thank you for your...
by Ian Addison | Jun 16, 2012 | Blogging, blogposts, General Thoughts
Are you prepared for a child blogging about your school? What if the Never Seconds blog had happened in your school. What would you have done? How would you have reacted? Would it have been able to happen at all? For those of you that have been under a rock for the...
by Ian Addison | Jun 12, 2012 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT, Presentations / Teachmeets
Now with less than two weeks to go, I am very excited to be attending Rethinking ICT. I’m not sure what I will get from it, but that is part of the excitement. I know that I am talking for 10minutes on my thoughts about ICT and this changes every day. I keep...
by Ian Addison | Jun 10, 2012 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Have you ever thought about the passwords that you use? Or that you give to your children? In our school, to get on to the school network the children simply type their name without a password but for online services there are usually criteria to meet before a...
by Ian Addison | May 29, 2012 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
There are many fabulous people on Twitter, but one of my favourites (if I am allowed to have favourites) is David Rogers. He is always trying to get the rest of us involved in naughty learning and it’s always loads of fun. In fact, I was at a conference...
by Ian Addison | May 20, 2012 | Blogging, blogposts
It’s that time of year again when the best blogs are highlighted and celebrated. This started last year after a conversation with Chris Ratliffe (@chrisrat) amongst others and the fact that there didn’t seem to be a UK-based blogging award. So Chris and...
by Ian Addison | May 10, 2012 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Got 10minutes to spare? Fancy playing a game? I guarantee you’ll spend 30minutes or so on it though… I came across this game about four years ago when we were running a business project in my last school and I have played it a few times since. Today I...
by Ian Addison | May 1, 2012 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
So Google Drive launched last week, you get 5GB of free online storage, yada yada yada…. I tweeted that it didn’t interest me in the slightest and the reason for that is that I use Dropbox. I have blogged about it in the past and got referral links taking...
