The Blog of a Primary School Teacher and ICT Leader
Run, Ian, Run
As you may have read here, I am taking part in a weight loss challenge this year and to be honest, the main challenge is with myself. Trying to stay motivated is always the hardest part! For the past 2 years I have taken part in the Great South Run, a 10mile run in...
Digital Leaders – 2weeks in
I wrote about my plans for my Digital Leaders a few weeks back and I know some people would like an update as they are trying a similar project, so here goes... A digital leader is a child in my school. They are not just Year 6, we have a couple of Year 3 children...
The Cloud – My Vision
I'm at the stage I need to make a decision. Admittedly, it's not just my decision and will be shared with the rest of the staff and yes, children will have a say too, but primarily it is my decision. The decision is where to go with our online learning. Currently we...
Greenscreening – a lesson in how to fail
Today was my first major failure as a teacher in a longtime. I was gutted. SO what happened? We tried greenscreening with year 5/6. The idea was simple, last week we found various backgrounds and saved them in a shared area, this week we'd take still photos, then...
#BETT2011 – The aftermath…
Where to begin? It's been a very busy few days indeed! I'll start by saying that I am not going to compare the differences between Learning without Frontiers and Bett as they are two different shows and I was only at Bett. Bett is a sales exhibition. Some of us have...
My Bett Presentations
Just in case you wanted to view a presentation that I gave at Bett, here are some links to resources that I used. Purple Mash for KS1 - Bett - Purple Mash (PPT) Teachmeet Takeover - Blogging and some other free tools such as Wordle, Animoto, Photopeach, Viddler and...