by Ian Addison | Nov 7, 2012 | blogposts, Curriculum
A little while ago I was talking to some people who had attended literacy training with Alan Peat (@alanpeat – http://www.alanpeat.com/) and they mentioned his book “Writing Exciting Sentences” and being an area I was interested in, I bought the...
by Ian Addison | Nov 4, 2012 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Today I went on my first geocaching experience. For those that don’t know, a geocache is a container that is hidden somewhere in the world. It has coordinates assigned to it and then using these coordinates (or an app) people go and look for the boxes. Inside...
by Ian Addison | Nov 3, 2012 | Blogging, blogposts
This term we have really been going for it with our blogs and one comment that kept coming up was that it was hard to find the “log-in” link on the site. We have our school blog (www.stjohnsblogs.co.uk) and we also have a number of class blogs too. Each...
by Ian Addison | Oct 31, 2012 | blogposts, Presentations / Teachmeets
As you may be aware, there is a Teachmeet happening in Hampshire in 2 weeks time. If you are aware then you might have seen it in one of the following places: Here on this blog On the Teachmeet Hants blog On the Hampshire BLT page Via Twitter By being my friend on...
by Ian Addison | Oct 29, 2012 | blogposts, Curriculum, Presentations / Teachmeets
Back in July, I wrote about an appearance on Brazilian TV where I would be discussing the use of Scratch to help with programming in school. I have just been sent the video and I thought I would share it on here. The video is mainly in Portuguese and we appear around...
