Sharing Photos

How do you share photos with parents after a big event such as a school trip or residential? I don’t mean via a blog so that they can see them, I mean sharing so that they can get a copy of a picture of their child. I’ve used Picasa in the past as my...

Inspiration

Following on from last month’s post about what inspired me, I thought I would share a little bit of what inspires me now. In my study/third bedroom, it is a bit of a mess. My wife hates working in there as I have bits of paper and post-its everywhere. On one...

A Tender Process

I have recently taken over as ICT Leader at Riders and this is the third time, in my third school, that I have held this role. Each time there has been investment in hardware, but this has been done in very different ways. I was tweeting a few people about a recent...

What Inspired Me?

I have been asked by the SHINE charity to write a short blog post about being inspired at school. to find out more about SHINE, there is a link at the bottom of this post. The question posed was…What inspired me at school? I honestly can’t remember. When I...

Feeling Charitable @kiva

Totally different blog post to usual, but one that I hope leads to at least 1 person donating some money and making a difference. I’m not sure how many of you donate to any charities. Some of you might donate regularly, some might do it if a friend is running a...

Literacy and ICT

At the end of March, I presented at the Derbyshire LA ICT/Computing Conference. I was running a workshop on the use of ICT within Literacy lessons and I thought that I should share the links to the resources that I talked about. There are some that have been around...