by Ian Addison | Dec 12, 2011 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
This time of year comes around very quickly. No not the Christmas thing, the Teachmeet at Bett thing. Somehow, like last year, I have had a small part in helping to organise is. Just like last year we started discussing it ages ago yet we reach December and...
by Ian Addison | Dec 9, 2011 | About Me, blogposts
Over the past couple of months I was contacted with the opportunity to be a 2Simple trainer and because I love their products, I jumped at the chance. Today I have been given the official go-ahead to use the logo and tell other people. So that’s what I’m...
by Ian Addison | Dec 9, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
This is a post I probably should’ve written a few months back but it’s only today (with a bit of a blog tidy up) that I have got round to it. After attending the Google Teacher Academy in July 2010, we launched Google Apps in our school and I have blogged...
by Ian Addison | Dec 4, 2011 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
You have probably started to think about your trip to the Bett Show in January. Will you go along looking for new ideas or a great piece of software that you’ve been missing in your school? Or will you be like many of us and go along to share and collaborate...
by Ian Addison | Nov 28, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
Recently Hampshire have released Flexible Filtering for schools meaning that it is now up to the schools to allow or block certain websites. This is a massive step forward and we have been enjoying this for a few weeks now. Now, despite many Hampshire teachers...
by Ian Addison | Nov 27, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
How do you assess ICT in your school? That is one of the questions I have been asking myself since starting at my school just over a year ago. It’s been on my to-do list since then and I keep pushing it downwards, until now. We currently report to parents twice...
by Ian Addison | Nov 19, 2011 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
A lot of people have been discussing whether they are attending the Bett show in January and I thought I would borrow an idea from someone last year (Sorry, I can’t remember who!) and start a doc so that people could say when they were attending and possibly...
by Ian Addison | Nov 14, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
During a discussion with Year 3/4 teachers last week, we were talking about anti-bullying week which happens every year. Now we are lucky enough not to have a bullying problem in our school and whether this is down to our children, our staff or our policies, I...
by Ian Addison | Nov 13, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Our PTA (called PAFS – Parents and Friends) wanted to have an area online for communicating with parents and the wider school community. We talked about a static page on our school site that updated now and again depending on events that were happening within...
by Ian Addison | Nov 5, 2011 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
John Mclear and his team have made many fantastic websites and tools including Primary Wall, Satpin, Primary Games Arena and Primary Pad, but the new one is fantastic. It’s the pictograph tool. This tool lets you create a simple pictograph using any subjects you...
