The Blog of a Primary School Teacher and ICT Leader
How do you take a hat off of the koala?
Have you ever used Voki? It's a great website that allows you to create a talking character or avatar and then embed this onto your blog, website or VLE. We use Voki a lot here in Hampshire within our VLE. Often, especially with younger children, the internet can be...
Blogging: A quick guide
I have been talking to schools about blogging recently. We have a blog in our VLE and this is good, but this is all hidden away within the VLE. There are huge benefits to this, it is much more secure and safer, but writing for an audience demands an audience. Recently...
What do you need in your school? Pt2 – software
Following on from the hardware blog post earlier this week, I have been thinking about software. We're getting a new network which involves clearing off the old one. This is the perfect time to lose some of those bits of software that are installed yet never touched....
Google Teacher Academy
Well...I've learnt something from applying for the Google Teacher Academy, make sure you give yourself enough time to reach a deadline. The deadline was a few hours ago and I left my video and application form until last night. Why? Well a mixture of being busy,...
What do you need in your school? Part 1 – Hardware
This wasn't the blog post I had planned to write, but three emails in a few days have got me thinking. What would you buy for your primary school if you were looking to improve ICT? This is a question I will be asking myself in the coming weeks as I move to a new...
TMHants – The feedback
It has been mentioned on this blog before about the changes we made to Teachmeet during the recent tmhants event and I believe this is another first (although maybe it isn't). We collected email addresses from all that arrived at tmhants and used this to send them a...