by Ian Addison | Nov 28, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
Recently Hampshire have released Flexible Filtering for schools meaning that it is now up to the schools to allow or block certain websites. This is a massive step forward and we have been enjoying this for a few weeks now. Now, despite many Hampshire teachers...
by Ian Addison | Nov 27, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
How do you assess ICT in your school? That is one of the questions I have been asking myself since starting at my school just over a year ago. It’s been on my to-do list since then and I keep pushing it downwards, until now. We currently report to parents twice...
by Ian Addison | Sep 2, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff, ICT Planning
I’ve wanted to write this blog post for weeks but part of me is petrified of what people will think. I feel like I need to justify some of it, so here goes… In my school, ICT has been a stand-alone subject and I want to integrate it more into the...
by Ian Addison | Aug 18, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
Following on from appearing on BBC Click I have been invited to attend a meeting to discuss the place of programming in the primary curriculum. In our school we use 2Do It Yourself to create games and this started in KS2 but in June we made simple games with KS1 as...
by Ian Addison | Aug 14, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff, Useful Sites/Software
One of my summer jobs is to manage accounts for children on a variety of online tools that we use in school. This ranges from Google Apps for the children’s email and documents to Class Pet for their maths activities. It also includes sites such as Purple Mash,...
by Ian Addison | Jul 17, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
I was thinking this morning about an idea I had and I think I’ve found a way to make it even better. I think. I have had quite a few people ask me for help this year with being an ICT coordinator and wanting to see what I was doing or wanting some ideas of where...
