by Ian Addison | Feb 28, 2012 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Today I tried another Twitter lesson (here was another attempt). As PPA teacher I often don’t find out what I’m doing until the day before and this was no exception. As part of the literacy in Year 3-4 they were looking at writing newspaper reports based...
by Ian Addison | Jan 29, 2012 | blogposts, General Thoughts
As you may have heard, I am aiming to run 1000 miles this year. This started as a silly idea but when I mentioned it to other people, they seemed to like it…so now there are a number of people attempting the challenge too. Throughout the year there will a number...
by Ian Addison | Jan 23, 2012 | blogposts, General Thoughts
On Wednesday this week I am taking part in a debate with Steve Wheeler, Dughall McCormick and Drew Buddy to discuss our feelings around VLEs/Learning Platforms. This debate is entitled ‘The VLE is Dead’ and is being held at the Learning Without Frontiers...
by Ian Addison | Jan 23, 2012 | blogposts, General Thoughts
As you may have noticed, lots of schools have started getting children involved in the training of staff and in the day-to-day workings of ICT throughout the school. We have a group of children called Digital Leaders and I know many other schools do too. We have...
by Ian Addison | Jan 19, 2012 | blogposts, General Thoughts
One thing that I found out at BETT is that Brainpop is now available as a service through our Google Apps login. This means that if you have both Google Apps and Brainpop, you can link the two to make it easier for children to access the resources. Fabulous! So how do...
by Ian Addison | Dec 27, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Well that’s been a pretty good year hasn’t it? I thought I should probably review it a bit before writing targets for next year. I don’t think this will be in any particular order but hey, it’s my blog, so I can choose the order 🙂 The year...
