by Ian Addison | Jul 27, 2010 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
This was going to be the topic of a 5minute presentation at the Google Teacher Academy, but I wasn’t lucky enough to be selected. @ZoeRoss19 and @dajbelshaw suggested I blog about it instead. So here it is… One popular topic within KS1 looks at houses and...
by Ian Addison | Jul 26, 2010 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
Over the last week, Colin Hill and I have been enrolled to manage a Primary ICT Coordinators Community within the website of Vital The idea of the community is to build a space where Primary ICT coordinators can share and discuss ideas, challenges, resources and...
by Ian Addison | Jul 24, 2010 | blogposts, Learning Platforms
I blogged a couple of weeks back about my new vision for our VLE. This has been implemented across 400+ primary schools here in Hampshire and I have been working away on the shared area recently trying to populate it with content and useful resources. One thing that...
by Ian Addison | Jul 23, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
So, the holidays are here, time for us teachers to sit around on our backsides for 6 weeks. Fantastic. Or maybe not, do you know any teachers that relax for the whole 6 weeks? Me neither! This holiday will be a strange one and busy one. I’m moving back into...
by Ian Addison | Jul 20, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts, Learning Platforms
A very quick post today. I was having a very quick chat with @gideonwilliams at his (secondary) school and collecting my webcam that he borrowed and I was talking about a few things and happened to mention Wizkid, our county-wide VLE. From behind us, a young girl of...
by Ian Addison | Jul 17, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
As I come to the end of a two-year training plan for Hampshire’s VLE, I am still struck by the amount of teachers and schools that seem to be approaching the use of technology in a strange way. Maybe it’s our fault? After all, we have invited them on 6...
by Ian Addison | Jul 12, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
Along with many other jobs, redesigning the school website is one of my tasks over the next few weeks and months. I aim to make a start now, then adapt and amend as I discuss it with parents, children and staff once I start at school in September. Can I design a...
by Ian Addison | Jul 9, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts, Useful Sites/Software
Do you send any surveys out to parents? children? governors? staff? How do you it? On paper or online? As part of our VLE training we show Google Forms. These are a fab way of asking questions and collating answers together, the best thing being that the data analysis...
by Ian Addison | Jul 8, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts, Learning Platforms
This post is aimed at Hampshire people, but feel free to read it and give your opinions! Ok, so we have a county-wide VLE, Wizkid/Studywiz. How much do we share across the county? A little bit, we have some schools discussing transition with their feeder schools or...
by Ian Addison | Jul 3, 2010 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
Something I did at my old school was to list the skills and attributes for a child leaving my school. If they could meet all of the requirements, we’d done a good job. We wrote the original list 3 years ago, but what would be on the 2010 list? Although come to...
