The Blog of a Primary School Teacher and ICT Leader
Streaming and Samba
I don't know why it came to me so late, but this morning I had an idea. Why not stream our concert live to the world? Today was our Listen to Me concert which is the culmination of a term's music tuition from Hampshire Music Service. They give us weekly sessions in a...
Google Apps Setup – Part 2 Creating Users and Managing Settings
Following on from Part 1 which looked at registering and setting up the domain for Google Apps, this post will discuss how to configure your domain to get it up and running. Click on a link below to open a Google Document that can then be downloaded or printed as...
Westminster Forum – an update
Today I attended the Westminster Forum to discuss the new Computing Curriculum. Details of the sessions are here. My brief was to present for 5 minutes on the new curriculum and to see if it was fit for purpose. My question is, what was the purpose? If the purpose is...
Computing Curriculum – Responses
A few weeks ago I asked for feedback regarding the planned changes to the KS1/2 ICT Curriculum. Here are the responses. I have removed names from the survey. Click here to open the results.
A Blogging Update
Over two years ago, I wrote a blogging post giving some ideas for schools to get started and with the news that Posterous is closing, it makes sense to look at this and see if it is all still relevant. I must declare an interest in that I was a Blogger user, but moved...
Remixing Videos
After our success last week with videos for news reports, we have looked to other ways of editing and playing with video online. Offline we were fairly limited to an old version of Windows Movie Maker, but on the web, we suddenly have loads of (free!!) tools to pick...