by Ian Addison | May 20, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
This is a video of the presentation for Teachmeet Midlands. It is quick, but that’s what the pause button is for 🙂 Enjoy!
by Ian Addison | May 8, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
This post is to gauge opinion really. I was running an e-safety session for a school this week and a parent of a year 3 child asked about setting them up with an email address. They asked if there was a way in which they could see all emails that the child...
by Ian Addison | May 4, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
This is a bit of an odd post, I’ve been asked to write it but then I am still only doing it because I think it could be a good resource. Manga High (www.mangahigh.com) is now free. I’m not sure what the catch is, but I have just registered 200 children...
by Ian Addison | Apr 29, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Just a quick post, I found a great tool today. For the past few months I have loved using the Snipping tool at school. We have Windows 7 and it enabled me to create how-to guides quickly and easily. Prior to this I was having to print the whole screen, copy it into...
by Ian Addison | Apr 29, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
I’ve discussed my use of Google Apps a few times and my children really enjoy using the various tools that Google has to offer, internet is great, specially now that we can take Online courses. We started using it (properly) just 2 months ago and already we have...
by Ian Addison | Apr 3, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Recently we received the annual invoice for our school’s internet. It would mean upgrading our 4mb line to 8mb, but the price seemed very steep at £8,000. Rather than sign and be done with it I, along with a few other Twitter people, discussed different options....
