The Blog of a Primary School Teacher and ICT Leader
Google Apps or Live@Edu?
I’m writing this on the train on the way back from #gtauk – the Google Teacher Academy. It’s 9pm and I’m shattered but buzzing. There are so many different things that I could blog about, and I will, but for now it’s the toughest one. NOTE - Although written on the...
#gtauk – a quick reflection
Wow. I want to reflect. I want to share what I learnt. I want to go and have a play with the tools. But where to begin? The Google Teacher Academy is CPD like I've never seen before. My training courses can be quick, but nothing like this. We covered things in...
House and Homes
This was going to be the topic of a 5minute presentation at the Google Teacher Academy, but I wasn't lucky enough to be selected. @ZoeRoss19 and @dajbelshaw suggested I blog about it instead. So here it is... One popular topic within KS1 looks at houses and homes. I'm...
Vital Primary ICT Group Launch
Over the last week, Colin Hill and I have been enrolled to manage a Primary ICT Coordinators Community within the website of Vital The idea of the community is to build a space where Primary ICT coordinators can share and discuss ideas, challenges, resources and...
An idea that grew and grew
I blogged a couple of weeks back about my new vision for our VLE. This has been implemented across 400+ primary schools here in Hampshire and I have been working away on the shared area recently trying to populate it with content and useful resources. One thing that...
Holidays are coming…
So, the holidays are here, time for us teachers to sit around on our backsides for 6 weeks. Fantastic. Or maybe not, do you know any teachers that relax for the whole 6 weeks? Me neither! This holiday will be a strange one and busy one. I'm moving back into school,...