by Ian Addison | Sep 14, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Have you used Voki in your classroom? It’s a fabulous speaking avatar tool that can be found at www.voki.com I was first made aware of it from the languages side of things from Jo Rhys-Jones (@jowinchester) and Lisa Stevens (@lisibo) as they used it to speak in...
by Ian Addison | Sep 8, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Planning
One thing that sometimes happens as PPA teacher is that I have to teach the same lesson twice to two different classes. This isn’t a bad thing as it means I can try different things and achieve different outcomes because the children are different. For...
by Ian Addison | Sep 4, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Remember back in January when I challenged everyone to have a healthy year and I said we could all lose weight together? Remember that? January WAS a long time ago… Anyway, I’ve had a bad summer. Not enough exercise and too many lunches and dinners seeing...
by Ian Addison | Sep 2, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff, ICT Planning
I’ve wanted to write this blog post for weeks but part of me is petrified of what people will think. I feel like I need to justify some of it, so here goes… In my school, ICT has been a stand-alone subject and I want to integrate it more into the...
by Ian Addison | Sep 2, 2011 | Blogging, blogposts
Just a short post today. I am often asked which plugins we have on our school blog to help it run and to manage it so I have made a list. Now I know there are people out there who have more knowledge and expertise than I do and I’d love them to correct me or...
by Ian Addison | Sep 1, 2011 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
On the 8th September I will be hosting the #ukedchat session and as usual, I’m doing things a little differently – (although thinking about it, I’ve done this a few times, so it’s not that different for me!). Instead of the normal vote,...
by Ian Addison | Aug 24, 2011 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
Following on from my post about programming, I wanted to share the links that I have collated. Some of these came from comments to my post, some from tweets I received and some are examples I had myself. I thought it best to share my presentation with you all as I...
by Ian Addison | Aug 18, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
Following on from appearing on BBC Click I have been invited to attend a meeting to discuss the place of programming in the primary curriculum. In our school we use 2Do It Yourself to create games and this started in KS2 but in June we made simple games with KS1 as...
by Ian Addison | Aug 14, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff, Useful Sites/Software
One of my summer jobs is to manage accounts for children on a variety of online tools that we use in school. This ranges from Google Apps for the children’s email and documents to Class Pet for their maths activities. It also includes sites such as Purple Mash,...
by Ian Addison | Jul 18, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Thank you Mrs Skinner for setting up the 100word challenge and for commenting on our blog posts. The 100word challenge has given our children a great reason to write and to post on their blogs. For those that don’t know, Mrs Skinner has been fantastic in viewing...
