How not to run a competition

by | Mar 25, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts

I entered a competition with my school recently. We had to submit a 3minute video about education and technology. I talked about the great story of Magnie the whale visiting from Scotland and spending time with us. We wrote postcards and emailed the other school. Good...

I’m very app-y

by | Mar 23, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts

Sorry for the rubbish title, but it made me smile.It’s obviously been a long day. Today I made my first ever app for a phone. It took me about 45minutes and I’m fairly happy with the result. It all started yesterday when Simon (@xannov) said he had made an...

Another week, another challenge

by | Mar 20, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts

Google Apps is starting to challenge me in lots of different ways. I like it, but boy you have to be ready for it. This week? Sites. Children have the ability to make their websites public, to the whole world. Now, I have said to the children that I don’t want...

To be free or not be free?

by | Mar 14, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts

So, a few weeks ago I wrote about the launch of www.undertenminutes.com which is a video site with videos in er…under ten minutes. The response has been amazing and there have been 11,700 pages displayed and 3,400 unique visits in just 19 days. Which is great....

Google Apps – Week 2 #gct

by | Mar 11, 2011 | blogposts, Learning Platforms

Now I am not planning on writing a weekly diary on our Google Apps life at all, but I think week 2 (and possibly 3) will be a key milestone in our experience. So, Monday we managed to get Mail working. It was my fault as I had some settings wrong in the Control Panel...