by Ian Addison | Mar 14, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Here I am, in my new home. I know my old blog was fairly new and only been there for a few months, but it has moved. Why move? Well a number of reasons really. My Hampshire contract is due to run out in July and with it, will go my county email address. This has been...
by Ian Addison | Feb 28, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Collaboration is a funny thing. As you may know, I train teachers at the moment and I would say currently, 90% of my days are used training on using the VLE. We talk about sharing and collaborating all of the time. Teachers think it sounds like a great idea, but...
by Ian Addison | Feb 18, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts
I spend all day training schools to use the internet, the VLE and other web-based tools. Often we get the negative comments regarding children’s computer access at home. Schools sometimes have no idea how many children do not have access, so we often suggest...
by Ian Addison | Feb 5, 2010 | blogposts, ICT Cluster
Part 1 of the Roundup can be found hereWallWisher – http://www.wallwisher.com/ What does it do?Wallwisher allows you to create an empty space or wall and collate children’s comments. You can create any name for your wall so you can make it easier for your...
by Ian Addison | Feb 3, 2010 | blogposts, ICT Cluster
So, another ICT cluster has finished and this one seemed to fly by like a whirlwind! I think I probably tried fitting too much into a short space of time. I promise next session I will slow down and give more playing time! (and find a room with a decent...
by Ian Addison | Jan 20, 2010 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT, General Thoughts
I know that BETT finished ages ago (well it seems like it anyway) but it has been a busy few days packing boxes and such like so I haven’t had chance to post about my BETT finds. Some of these are obvious and some less so. What I have tried to do is also contact...
by Ian Addison | Jan 17, 2010 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT, General Thoughts
I have finally returned home after a long, but exciting few days at BETT.I went for 2 days last year, but managed to stay for 3 this time around. Posting this on the Sunday means that everyone has already made it home and blogged already!The most exciting thing for me...
by Ian Addison | Jan 14, 2010 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT, General Thoughts
I’ve finally sat down after a crazy day at bett. After the train announcer said there was a motor fault on the train, i was a little worried how the day would go. Luckily marion from @netintelligence offered to look after my bag, helping reduce queueing time....
by Ian Addison | Jan 13, 2010 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT, General Thoughts
I’m just testing my blog before bett. I’m heading off tomorrow morning, with a busy day planned. There are two teachmeet takeover presentations, midday at the scholastic stand, g40 where i’ll be talking about vles and some of the challenges...
by Ian Addison | Jan 11, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts
So what did you do today? This morning I spent time using Google Maps to create a map of all schools in Hampshire that are using our VLE, Wizkid. This is the Hampshire name for Studywiz. Why do we want a map of our schools? Well, there are a few reasons:*To see which...
