The Blog of a Primary School Teacher and ICT Leader
Under Ten Minutes
It has been a busy half term so far, I've made 3 new websites. One is a blog for my local pyramid of schools (www.swanmorepyramid.co.uk) where we will be sharing ideas and tips across the schools. It will also be a way of getting the non-blogging schools to start...
Greenscreening – The conclusion
Greenscreening...that's a fun idea isn't it? I thought so...but let me tell you, it can be a massive headache. Here is a review of my 6 week greenscreen experience/hell/journey.Previous posts are here and here. I will repeat bits of it, but this post will be more of...
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 missing. I was at...
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 Conference. In...
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 own 2. I...