by Ian Addison | Apr 29, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Just a quick post, I found a great tool today. For the past few months I have loved using the Snipping tool at school. We have Windows 7 and it enabled me to create how-to guides quickly and easily. Prior to this I was having to print the whole screen, copy it into...
by Ian Addison | Apr 29, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
I’ve discussed my use of Google Apps a few times and my children really enjoy using the various tools that Google has to offer, internet is great, specially now that we can take Online courses. We started using it (properly) just 2 months ago and already we have...
by Ian Addison | Apr 25, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
I wrote before (here in fact) about my digital leader project. I originally chose 12 children and then gave them jobs etc, some stuck to their jobs and blogged loads and some got bored and wanted to go out and play football. So I am starting again. It is such a great...
by Ian Addison | Apr 15, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
I wrote way back in July last year about my need to create an ICT policy for my school. I felt that it would make sense to have one policy to encompass ICT, e-safety, social media and anything that I thought I would need. So I tweeted and emailed people that I thought...
by Ian Addison | Apr 3, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Recently we received the annual invoice for our school’s internet. It would mean upgrading our 4mb line to 8mb, but the price seemed very steep at £8,000. Rather than sign and be done with it I, along with a few other Twitter people, discussed different options....
by Ian Addison | Mar 29, 2011 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Do you use Junior Librarian in your school? We have the .net version which gives a Silverlight environment where children can scan books in and out using a barcode reader. I know some schools have the thumbprint reader that does the same job. But does your library...
by Ian Addison | Mar 29, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
One thing I hate about Twitter is a service where people’s tweets are collated together and put on to a daily newspaper called the ‘tech daily’ or whatever. Sometimes I get alerted to these as my tweets or blog posts appear in them. Does anyone read...
by Ian Addison | Mar 28, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Today we had a teacher training day and the morning was given up to ICT. My plan was to show staff our ICT vision, how to use Google Apps and then give them time to play. My worry is that teachers never get play time and that they are expected to use new equipment,...
by Ian Addison | Mar 27, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
What do you do in your school to support less confident staff? How do you train them to use new software? Some teachers will go and explore of course, but many won’t. Do you make handouts? I’ve been a fan of video help files for ages and a good friend of...
by Ian Addison | Mar 27, 2011 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
After helping to organise Teachmeet Bett 2011 a few companies spoke to me and wanted to get in on the Teachmeet bandwagon. Now some will be doing it for promotional purposes and some will be there because they see it as a positive step forward for teachers’...
