by Ian Addison | Sep 21, 2013 | blogposts, Curriculum
I have been a fan of the 100 Word Challenge for a long time. For those that aren’t aware, this is a weekly prompt provided by Julia Skinner (@theheadsoffice). The idea is that children will then write 100 words based on the prompt which may be a picture or...
by Ian Addison | Sep 18, 2013 | blogposts, Presentations / Teachmeets
At last night’s #tmpompey, I shared a few different ways of using photos including photo editing tools. I think my favourite is clipping magic, feel free to have a look and see what you think.
by Ian Addison | Sep 4, 2013 | blogposts, Curriculum
This post has come about because I was commenting on a blog post from Teacher’s Pet about buying equipment from Ikea and I posted a photograph of my reading area. Someone asked a question about it, then soon after there were more questions asking where I had got...
by Ian Addison | Sep 1, 2013 | blogposts, General Thoughts
This coming week sees a huge challenge and a big change in my teaching career. After three years at St John’s, I am moving to be a Year 3/4 Leader at Riders Junior School. So why the change? I have been teaching eight years and have worked in three different...
by Ian Addison | Aug 26, 2013 | blogposts, Presentations / Teachmeets
The term hasn’t even begun yet and I have got 3 events in the calendar where I can meet with other teachers and share ideas. I thought I’d share them in one place to make it easier to find the links: #tmpompey – Teachmeet Pompey...
by Ian Addison | Aug 7, 2013 | Blogging, blogposts
This is something that has taken ages, but mainly because it’s been done in half hour slots here and there. I have gone through my blog, tidied it a bit and made a list of my blog posts. One thing that I found is that people would often ask if I had written a...
by Ian Addison | Aug 7, 2013 | blogposts, Curriculum
This is a post that should have been written weeks ago, but what with the end of term, leaving schools (more on that later) and joining a new one, I haven’t had chance. But I wanted to share my experience of something that others such as Dawn Hallybone, Tom...
by Ian Addison | Aug 5, 2013 | blogposts, Social Media, Twitter
I have talked about using lists before to help manage people on Twitter but this post is about a new list I have created. There are many picture-based accounts on Twitter including @fascinatingpics and my most recent find, @abandonedpic which shows pictures of places...
by Ian Addison | Jul 18, 2013 | blogposts, Digital Leaders
For the #ukedchat on 18th July, Digital Leaders were asked to present a video on a given topic. Mine chose Hacksaurus. Here is the video with a few useful links below. Under Ten Minutes video: http://www.undertenminutes.com/?p=383 Earlier Blog Post about...
by Ian Addison | Jun 5, 2013 | blogposts, Curriculum
I currently teach a fairly able Maths group, it’s mainly Year 4 with four Year 3 children in it too. We’ve worked very hard this year and made great progress but I wanted to explore with a few different challenges and projects as the year draws to a close....
