by Ian Addison | May 5, 2010 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Are you a Key Stage 1 teacher? Do you know how difficult it is to find good quality KS1 websites? We had a similar problem when showing fun websites to teachers during our VLE training sessions. Until we found i-board. By the way, there’s some KS2 stuff here...
by Ian Addison | May 2, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts, Useful Sites/Software
Have you seen the BBC’s Class Clips library? This is a selection of videos from the BBC archive that can all be used within the classroom for free. Depending on your VLE, these can also be embedded. So why not have a go at embedding them into a discussion forum...
by Ian Addison | May 2, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts
I’ve got a confession to make, not one that I’m ashamed of at all, but a confession all the same. I’ve never voted before. I know that some people will be up in arms about me abusing my right or whatever, but the truth is, my parents (as far as...
by Ian Addison | Apr 17, 2010 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
Are you the kind of person that seeks out new ideas and opportunities? Do you love learning new things? Do you go into your classroom with enthusiasm? Does teaching make you smile? Do you share ideas with other teachers? Do you go into the staffroom and tell others...
by Ian Addison | Apr 15, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts, Useful Sites/Software
Before you panic, there is no need to dust off those trainers or sweatbands. For this jog, you’re going to stay there in that comfy chair maybe even with a tea and a biscuit, actually…I encourage you to go and get a cuppa before we go Jogging. Now that is...
by Ian Addison | Apr 14, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts, Useful Sites/Software
I’ve said it before, but Twitter truly is a wonderful place. It started a few days ago with Dianne Spencer, a head teacher from Bolton, commenting that she had written her SEF form and was pleased with her work. I suggested ‘chucking it into Wordle’....
by Ian Addison | Apr 12, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts, Useful Sites/Software
How many memory sticks do you own? I’ve got about 6 and I’d say they have all been used regularly. My first was 128mb and I got it in my first year at Uni and loved it, I then gradually went up in size and my current 8gb has been used constantly for about...
by Ian Addison | Mar 22, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts
I’m looking for a new job. My secondment runs out in July and I’m thinking I need to move to something new. What sort of job or what challenge I should go for can wait for another post. For this post, I wanted to show how I used Wordle. For most jobs, you...
by Ian Addison | Mar 21, 2010 | Blogging, blogposts
First off, this blog post is not going to give the definitive answer to blogging, many other sites have done that before and some are examples are listed below. This post is designed to give people some ideas, some links and hopefully get them into blogging either...
by Ian Addison | Mar 16, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts
What’s the point of Twitter? You hear about it on the news and in magazines and it seems to be something celebrities use to share information and useless facts with the world. But is there more to it? The way that I explain it to people is that it all depends on who...
