ICT in my Classroom

I just want to address a few thoughts that are flying around at the moment that we are “preaching to the choir” a bit when we blog. In that the people who read the posts we write are those who are already convinced and understand the potential of the technology. Are the people who do [...]

I was interested to read Chris Lehmann’s Practical Theory blog this morning about what School 2.0 is being defined as. It’s about collaboration — it’s about understanding that we are more than the sum of our parts. It’s about understanding that my ideas will be made better if I listen to your ideas. And it [...]

We got round to looking once more at our Science Online resource over at Editgrid. I had some trouble yesterday with it so I thought I could try dumping the cache in Firefox and that worked really well. So in the morning I pasted in the data which I added to Excel yesterday and sorted [...]

Today we were back to school. We had a good day and pretty much hit the ground running. I decided that during our revision of the human body, and specifically whilst we were looking at pulse rate we would use our Science Online spreadsheet resource to share results between the 2 Year 6 classes. Although [...]

After a brief chat with Doug, and me passing the age test, he has invited me to be involved with this online group. I hope to learn even more from those involved. As Mr Belshaw puts it: We’re going to be known as NextGen Teachers and the aim is to represent the world and what [...]