Going old school

I’ve been thinking about ICT, it’s kinda what I do as ICT coordinator, but I’ve been thinking a bit bigger. I love the exciting projects such as green screening, rolling out Google Apps or testing QR codes, but I was wondering if there was something...

An exciting place to be #ngconf

I was flicking through my diary, looking for future runs I can book myself onto and I saw a date in my diary that I’d forgotten about. Not totally forgotten, but it’s June so it’s ages away. The date is June 24th and the event? The Northern Grid...

Blogging with children

I originally wrote this article to appear in the Spring edition of User Friendly, Hampshire’s ICT magazine. As the magazine has now appeared in schools, I thought it would be a good idea to copy it below for you all to see. I wrote this in October 2010. Do your...

Greenscreening – an update

Ok, so I’ve got some flak from people that I was happy to complain when my greenscreening went badly wrong, but then I didn’t celebrate when it worked well. So here it is. The first lesson failed for two main reasons. 1. I got the children working on their...