by Ian Addison | Jun 22, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Ok, so the heading was meant to grab your attention, but I had a play with some free stuff today. I installed it in less than 10 seconds and children were able to do the same. What am I talking about? The Chrome Webstore. The webstore is available here:...
by Ian Addison | May 28, 2011 | blogposts, Conferences / BETT
I am delighted to announce that we will be hosting 2 Google Apps workshops at my school in July. These workshops are aimed at people who are maybe thinking of using Google Apps within their school and want to get an overview of the tools available. Even if you are not...
by Ian Addison | May 7, 2011 | blogposts, ICT Co-ordinator Stuff
Just a quick post about updates really. It’s weird, I spent two years training teachers to use the VLE in Hampshire and we had to test updates thoroughly, schedule them to happen during holidays just in case something went wrong. We also had to update all...
by Ian Addison | Apr 29, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
I’ve discussed my use of Google Apps a few times and my children really enjoy using the various tools that Google has to offer, internet is great, specially now that we can take Online courses. We started using it (properly) just 2 months ago and already we have...
by Ian Addison | Mar 28, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts
Today we had a teacher training day and the morning was given up to ICT. My plan was to show staff our ICT vision, how to use Google Apps and then give them time to play. My worry is that teachers never get play time and that they are expected to use new equipment,...
