How not to run a competition

by | Mar 25, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts

I entered a competition with my school recently. We had to submit a 3minute video about education and technology. I talked about the great story of Magnie the whale visiting from Scotland and spending time with us. We wrote postcards and emailed the other school. Good...

I’m very app-y

by | Mar 23, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts

Sorry for the rubbish title, but it made me smile.It’s obviously been a long day. Today I made my first ever app for a phone. It took me about 45minutes and I’m fairly happy with the result. It all started yesterday when Simon (@xannov) said he had made an...

Another week, another challenge

by | Mar 20, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts

Google Apps is starting to challenge me in lots of different ways. I like it, but boy you have to be ready for it. This week? Sites. Children have the ability to make their websites public, to the whole world. Now, I have said to the children that I don’t want...

To be free or not be free?

by | Mar 14, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts

So, a few weeks ago I wrote about the launch of www.undertenminutes.com which is a video site with videos in er…under ten minutes. The response has been amazing and there have been 11,700 pages displayed and 3,400 unique visits in just 19 days. Which is great....

Google Apps – Week 2 #gct

by | Mar 11, 2011 | blogposts, Learning Platforms

Now I am not planning on writing a weekly diary on our Google Apps life at all, but I think week 2 (and possibly 3) will be a key milestone in our experience. So, Monday we managed to get Mail working. It was my fault as I had some settings wrong in the Control Panel...

Google Apps – one week in #GCT

by | Mar 3, 2011 | blogposts, Learning Platforms

So we launched our VLE cloudy thing this week and I thought I had better write about what I’ve done and how we’ve done it. The proper how-to bit will come later, I know that sounds silly but I want to document it properly to give to other schools who want...

Primary to Secondary

by | Feb 28, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff

Just a quick post today, on Thursday I am planning on meeting with some ICT guys from our local secondary school. This came about because a friend of mine mentioned on Twitter he’d been to see a guy at a local school and it turned out to be mine. Now don’t...

Even bears need a holiday

by | Feb 27, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts

I wrote a little while ago about an idea that I had. My idea was to copy someone else’s idea and to change it a bit. I did ask permission first and was told it was fine to do so… The idea was from @mrsbee12 and she sends her Kiwi bird, Trevor, to other...