The Blog of a Primary School Teacher and ICT Leader
A little smile
A very quick post today. I was having a very quick chat with @gideonwilliams at his (secondary) school and collecting my webcam that he borrowed and I was talking about a few things and happened to mention Wizkid, our county-wide VLE. From behind us, a young girl of...
Chicken or Egg?
As I come to the end of a two-year training plan for Hampshire's VLE, I am still struck by the amount of teachers and schools that seem to be approaching the use of technology in a strange way. Maybe it's our fault? After all, we have invited them on 6 days of VLE...
What’s in a website?
Along with many other jobs, redesigning the school website is one of my tasks over the next few weeks and months. I aim to make a start now, then adapt and amend as I discuss it with parents, children and staff once I start at school in September. Can I design a...
Let me ask you a question
Do you send any surveys out to parents? children? governors? staff? How do you it? On paper or online? As part of our VLE training we show Google Forms. These are a fab way of asking questions and collating answers together, the best thing being that the data analysis...
Wanna share?
This post is aimed at Hampshire people, but feel free to read it and give your opinions! Ok, so we have a county-wide VLE, Wizkid/Studywiz. How much do we share across the county? A little bit, we have some schools discussing transition with their feeder schools or...
A child leaving my school will…
Something I did at my old school was to list the skills and attributes for a child leaving my school. If they could meet all of the requirements, we'd done a good job. We wrote the original list 3 years ago, but what would be on the 2010 list? Although come to think...