ICT in my Classroom

So the time has come around when we have decided at school that to take our first major step towards a goal we have had, a vision for the future of our school. We would like our children to have a uninhibitied personal choice when to use technology; whether that be a calculator or sharing [...]

I have been wondering for a long time now about how out of date our schools are becoming – this is only confounded by times in my classroom when this question (or statement) has come sharply into focus, like here. So I recently read something from Willard Daggett that John Pederson quoted “Are your schools [...]

So Doug Belshaw tagged me in with this ‘5 things about me’ meme. (To be honest since I have been blogging I have learned loads of new words! Meme being one of them. But Google Bomb is my favourite.) I enjoy playing the guitar. I decided a couple of years back that although I never [...]

On wednesday we broke up for our Christmas break – so have a good one! At the end of every term we have a day when the children bring in toys and just relax a bit and we have a bit of a party – well we are breaking up for the holidays!! This year [...]

We have just recently had confirmation of another SLICT host day to be held at school. We will be welcoming colleagues on the 31st January. We don’t get any real feedback in terms of what we provide – but I suppose the fact they ask us to host again is the best feedback of all!

Yesterday there was a little bit of a spark in the air as children from Carronshorehelped us with our poetry on our wikispace. Nothing was particularly planned, we just followed up a comment on the class blog after asking for some contributions. The children from Carronshore wrote their “If I were and If you were” [...]

Just recently I seem to be constantly deleting spam comments on this blog – a great shame considering as a newcomer I am interested in the comments readers have about the work I am doing, so naturally I am always pleased to see comments. But there is nothing interesting about continually deleting spam.

Links for use in the workshop. Flickr Bubblr Spell with Flickr Earth Album Postcard Search Other Flickr Links Priestsic6 Blog

Just thought I would try out the new Democracy plugin for Edublogs, but couldn’t think of anything remotely professional to ask. n {democracy:2}

I am putting together a list of early years classroom blogs – please help to contribute any you know, doesn’t have to be in the UK just of ages 4-7 : Room One’s Blog – Class blog by year 2/3 students at Mapua School in New Zealand. Interactive Chatting Teddies a collaborative blogging project in [...]