The Blog of a Primary School Teacher and ICT Leader
My new home
Here I am, in my new home. I know my old blog was fairly new and only been there for a few months, but it has moved. Why move? Well a number of reasons really. My Hampshire contract is due to run out in July and with it, will go my county email address. This has been...
Stop, Collaborate and Listen…
Collaboration is a funny thing. As you may know, I train teachers at the moment and I would say currently, 90% of my days are used training on using the VLE. We talk about sharing and collaborating all of the time. Teachers think it sounds like a great idea, but who's...
Home Access
I spend all day training schools to use the internet, the VLE and other web-based tools. Often we get the negative comments regarding children's computer access at home. Schools sometimes have no idea how many children do not have access, so we often suggest running a...
ICT Cluster Spring 1 – Roundup Pt2
Part 1 of the Roundup can be found hereWallWisher - http://www.wallwisher.com/ What does it do?Wallwisher allows you to create an empty space or wall and collate children's comments. You can create any name for your wall so you can make it easier for your children to...
ICT Cluster Spring 1 – Roundup Pt1
So, another ICT cluster has finished and this one seemed to fly by like a whirlwind! I think I probably tried fitting too much into a short space of time. I promise next session I will slow down and give more playing time! (and find a room with a decent...
My favourite finds at BETT
I know that BETT finished ages ago (well it seems like it anyway) but it has been a busy few days packing boxes and such like so I haven't had chance to post about my BETT finds. Some of these are obvious and some less so. What I have tried to do is also contact the...