Originally published by Institute for Learning: Shane Cowen. original post Liberal Democrat conference, Monday 24 September 2012. Shane wrote a much better account than me. The relevance and ‘functionality’ of the curriculum is of constant debate in most subject areas…
What a day! This all day event took place at the Corn Exchange plus more of the Dome. A very beautiful building (if you haven’t seen it). The event was immense from tweeting with a BBC Micro & a raspberry…
#BDF12 This is a month long festival that opened September 2nd with the most amazing interactive digital fireworks display that I have ever seen. Truly amazing experience from pixelpyros @seb-ly. Check out the # for pictures and videos of the…
Bootcamp…. Summer training camp for teachers on Java using Greenfoot. All I can say is THANK YOU to @greenfootteam. It was a five day training course in the summer holidays. Crazy you might say for spending my holiday time on…
Welcome to Westminster briefing Where do I start. Twitter! I was contacted via twitter by The House to see if I was interested in speaking at a policy and practice briefing relating to the “new” ICT curriculum. Well, one can’t…
Code, code, code I was recently involve in the Guardian Junior Hackday. The day (2 actual days) was amazing. There were four schools from around the country. I coordinated the teachers prior to the event and gave training via Google…
Lets hangout! This is my post about using google hangouts in my teaching practice and why I think that hangouts are just AWESOME! Google hangouts are video conferencing with extras. They are fabulous resource for sharing practice, virtual face2face meetings,…
Scratch programming: who said kids can’t code! Firstly I would like to thank Stanford Infants and Regent Class, for allowing me in to their classroom. You are amazing! The project: I am a secondary teacher who goes (on my day…
I have been teaching IT since 2006 and a lot has changed in that time. I am self-professed geek and huge sci-fi fan. My teaching allows me to use sci-fi examples and technological innovations to engage and educate students. I…
