ICT in my Classroom

After being passed on some information about the new LG Shine mobile phone blog from Doug Belshaw, I dropped them an email as they were looking for bloggers to use and review this new phone. Well low and behold they decided to send me one! Earlier this week I took delivery of the LG Shine [...]

Today was another opportunity for us to welcome headteachers from around the UK to our school and to talk strategically about our use and implementation of ICT, via the NCSL SLICT programme. We had five colleagues from Birmingham, North and South Leicestershire, Milton Keynes and London. It was exciting to be able to talk about [...]

Sorry that I have only just got round to writing the last of the three great conversations I had with colleagues last week. Unfortunately I have been very unwell over last weekend and very busy at school. Nonetheless the conversation holds its resonance and comes under the “Exchanging and sharing information” strand of the National [...]

So I am on to explaining about the second of three great conversations I had last week with colleagues at school. Since starting my blog I wanted to draw more of my colleagues into the experience and I set my own targets for this, well I am a little late on it but I have [...]

Last week was a fantastic week at school for conversations about new online (web 2) technologies. Nothing massively ground-breaking just a good step in the right direction. On Monday I met with Pete and Cathy who work in year 5 and we talked about a recent Literacy subject audit that we carried out, in line [...]

So after a few great days of interesting staff meetings with colleagues at school, two new Year 3 blogs have been created. (And many more on their way soon) I am sure you are all aware of how important these times are and I would really appreciate any readers just popping along and leaving an [...]

So as I currently write this I am installing the new SMARTBoard software and I have just reviewed the current state of the product that was displayed at BETT. The Interactive whiteboard has hardly changed since I dusted off a boxed one in a corridor way back when I was training. I do remember setting [...]

With great fanfare and celebration (and even a small finger buffet) I hereby open our WIKI ARCADE. After coming across SPLODER I thought it would be good for my kids to design some games, which we will be doing in the near future. And what better place to play them than in our WIKISPACE ARCADE. [...]

Ever since I decided to run some workshops in school about some new web 2.0 tools, I have been thinking about what set of resources (physical and digital) would best make up a sort of blogging toolkit. A starter pack for teachers to make the most of the technology. So what would you need in [...]

So many people are in a reflective mood – lots of “reviews of the year” and “best bits” going on. I don’t understand where everyone gets the time! I still have 12 draft posts that I started thinking about since September I have not written! I suppose the title of this post suggests a mini [...]