by Ian Addison | Jan 5, 2013 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Teachers are often familiar with the term magpie-ing ideas. Borrowing from someone else because it is a great, shiny idea and then adapting it and using it. We use the term ‘magpie’ mostly in Literacy lessons where a child has found a great word and then...
by Ian Addison | Jan 4, 2013 | blogposts, Hardware
Recently we have managed to get a class set of 32 Chromebooks to trial in our school. These were acquired through Ian Nairn at C-Learning (http://c-learning.net/) and are free to schools for a few weeks. We got ours two weeks before Christmas so we’re half-way...
by Ian Addison | Jan 4, 2013 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
This is now the third version of this popular post, (here are tips for BETT2011 and BETT2012) but I thought I should edit it slightly and repost it for people that are new to BETT. Firstly, what is BETT? – http://www.bettshow.com Well it’s a huge event...
by Ian Addison | Dec 31, 2012 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Before looking ahead to 2013, it is probably sensible to review the year that has been already. Last year I wrote a few targets for the year ahead and it’s odd, because many of the things that have happened weren’t on the list! But let’s start with...
by Ian Addison | Dec 28, 2012 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Before writing a review of 2012, which will take a bit of thought, I thought I would share the top 5 posts on this blog throughout the whole of 2012. What this top 5 does show is that all of these posts are over a year old (the BETT one is 4 days from its first...
by Ian Addison | Dec 9, 2012 | blogposts, Curriculum
As I mentioned a few posts ago, I am having a bit of a focus on writing interesting sentences with my class. They are mixed Year 3/4 and of varying abilities as you would expect. I have been working on whiteboard work as a whole class looking at connectives and...
