Dec
11
2006
Last week I completed my penultimate workshop for this term on classroom blogging. I changed the day to later in the week and had a great turn out, I always like to think of it in terms of the year groups I am reaching with this training and I managed Foundation stage right through to [...]
Dec
11
2006
Today I have been confirming the details of a session on blogging that I have been asked to present at the NAACE Primary Community Conference in March of 2007. It is great that people are reading this blog and offering me such great opportunities and I am pleased to help. So I will be in [...]
Dec
08
2006
As long as my tired eyes are not deceiving me I spotted that my “Classroom Google Earth” wikispace has been nominated in the Best Wiki 2006 in the Edublog awards! How mad is that! I feel honoured to be included and that someone even nominated the space – I hope that you can take a [...]
Dec
06
2006
I feel very fortunate. It is a very rare opportunity to see an emergent technology that could have a huge impact on future teaching and learning. On Monday I travelled to London to meet up with the Philips Entertaible team who I had met back in July of this year over in Eindhoven, Holland. It [...]
Dec
03
2006
I have been invited down to London for a workshop run by Philips. You may be wondering why I am involved with such a big electronics company? Well earlier on this year I was exploring our options in terms of perhaps buying a second interactive device for our early years classrooms. I had heard all [...]