by Ian Addison | Feb 10, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
I’ve been thinking about ICT, it’s kinda what I do as ICT coordinator, but I’ve been thinking a bit bigger. I love the exciting projects such as green screening, rolling out Google Apps or testing QR codes, but I was wondering if there was something...
by Ian Addison | Feb 8, 2011 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
I was flicking through my diary, looking for future runs I can book myself onto and I saw a date in my diary that I’d forgotten about. Not totally forgotten, but it’s June so it’s ages away. The date is June 24th and the event? The Northern Grid...
by Ian Addison | Feb 7, 2011 | Blogging, blogposts, General Thoughts
I originally wrote this article to appear in the Spring edition of User Friendly, Hampshire’s ICT magazine. As the magazine has now appeared in schools, I thought it would be a good idea to copy it below for you all to see. I wrote this in October 2010. Do your...
by Ian Addison | Feb 7, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Ok, so I’ve got some flak from people that I was happy to complain when my greenscreening went badly wrong, but then I didn’t celebrate when it worked well. So here it is. The first lesson failed for two main reasons. 1. I got the children working on their...
by Ian Addison | Feb 6, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
As you may have read here, I am taking part in a weight loss challenge this year and to be honest, the main challenge is with myself. Trying to stay motivated is always the hardest part! For the past 2 years I have taken part in the Great South Run, a 10mile run in...
by Ian Addison | Jan 27, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
I wrote about my plans for my Digital Leaders a few weeks back and I know some people would like an update as they are trying a similar project, so here goes… A digital leader is a child in my school. They are not just Year 6, we have a couple of Year 3 children...
by Ian Addison | Jan 25, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff, Learning Platforms
I’m at the stage I need to make a decision. Admittedly, it’s not just my decision and will be shared with the rest of the staff and yes, children will have a say too, but primarily it is my decision. The decision is where to go with our online learning....
by Ian Addison | Jan 20, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Today was my first major failure as a teacher in a longtime. I was gutted. SO what happened? We tried greenscreening with year 5/6. The idea was simple, last week we found various backgrounds and saved them in a shared area, this week we’d take still photos,...
by Ian Addison | Jan 16, 2011 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
Where to begin? It’s been a very busy few days indeed! I’ll start by saying that I am not going to compare the differences between Learning without Frontiers and Bett as they are two different shows and I was only at Bett. Bett is a sales exhibition. Some...
by Ian Addison | Jan 14, 2011 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
Just in case you wanted to view a presentation that I gave at Bett, here are some links to resources that I used. Purple Mash for KS1 – Bett – Purple Mash (PPT) Teachmeet Takeover – Blogging and some other free tools such as Wordle, Animoto,...
