by Ian Addison | Sep 28, 2014 | blogposts, Hardware
In my earlier posts, I discussed the ICT provision in my school, I charted where we were, buying chromebooks and now this is about the next step. We have a new Executive headteacher and in her previous school, she used Android tablets. I love Android as I have used it...
by Ian Addison | Sep 28, 2014 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
I have been at my school for just over a year and have been responsible for the ICT since February. I have had a number of schools and teachers ask questions about our approach with chromebooks and tablets so I thought it best to document what we have been doing so...
by Ian Addison | Sep 9, 2014 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
I have been approached by the Eat Happy Project to spread the word of their good work. So this is a guest post, I hope you find it useful. As part of my role as Social Enterprise coordinator, it is my job to find new and exciting projects; linking new and...
by Ian Addison | Aug 28, 2014 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
I saw a few articles recently, including this one and this one, that talked about Dropbox reducing its pricing structure so I thought it was worth looking to see how they stack up against what I was already doing. For those of you that don’t know, and there are...
by Ian Addison | May 26, 2014 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
How do you share photos with parents after a big event such as a school trip or residential? I don’t mean via a blog so that they can see them, I mean sharing so that they can get a copy of a picture of their child. I’ve used Picasa in the past as my...
by Ian Addison | May 18, 2014 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Following on from last month’s post about what inspired me, I thought I would share a little bit of what inspires me now. In my study/third bedroom, it is a bit of a mess. My wife hates working in there as I have bits of paper and post-its everywhere. On one...
by Ian Addison | May 10, 2014 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
I have recently taken over as ICT Leader at Riders and this is the third time, in my third school, that I have held this role. Each time there has been investment in hardware, but this has been done in very different ways. I was tweeting a few people about a recent...
by Ian Addison | Apr 18, 2014 | blogposts, General Thoughts
I have been asked by the SHINE charity to write a short blog post about being inspired at school. to find out more about SHINE, there is a link at the bottom of this post. The question posed was…What inspired me at school? I honestly can’t remember. When I...
by Ian Addison | Apr 17, 2014 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Totally different blog post to usual, but one that I hope leads to at least 1 person donating some money and making a difference. I’m not sure how many of you donate to any charities. Some of you might donate regularly, some might do it if a friend is running a...
by Ian Addison | Apr 13, 2014 | blogposts, General Thoughts
At the end of March, I presented at the Derbyshire LA ICT/Computing Conference. I was running a workshop on the use of ICT within Literacy lessons and I thought that I should share the links to the resources that I talked about. There are some that have been around...
