by Ian Addison | Jun 1, 2016 | General Thoughts
This is a bit weird isn’t it? In the past 18 months (since December 2014 in fact) I have posted just twice. Once about Teachmeet Takeover at BETT2015 and once in Feb ’15 about the Teachmeet at the Education Show. In fact, both of those events were huge...
by Ian Addison | Sep 30, 2014 | blogposts, General Thoughts, Hardware, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
Following on from my last post where I talked about our ICT journey and where we had come from, this post will discuss our approach to Chromebooks. I have had a Chromebook at home, as well as desktop PCs, for about 3 years. I must say that it was a freebie for doing...
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 | 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...