by Ian Addison | Mar 29, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
One thing I hate about Twitter is a service where people’s tweets are collated together and put on to a daily newspaper called the ‘tech daily’ or whatever. Sometimes I get alerted to these as my tweets or blog posts appear in them. Does anyone read...
by Ian Addison | Mar 28, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Today we had a teacher training day and the morning was given up to ICT. My plan was to show staff our ICT vision, how to use Google Apps and then give them time to play. My worry is that teachers never get play time and that they are expected to use new equipment,...
by Ian Addison | Mar 27, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
What do you do in your school to support less confident staff? How do you train them to use new software? Some teachers will go and explore of course, but many won’t. Do you make handouts? I’ve been a fan of video help files for ages and a good friend of...
by Ian Addison | Mar 27, 2011 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
After helping to organise Teachmeet Bett 2011 a few companies spoke to me and wanted to get in on the Teachmeet bandwagon. Now some will be doing it for promotional purposes and some will be there because they see it as a positive step forward for teachers’...
by Ian Addison | 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...
by Ian Addison | 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...
