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This Blog is Moving! 30 Oct 2009 | 06:00 am
I am excited to let you all know that I have decided to move my blog to a self hosted WordPress platform. With the amazing help from Doug Belshaw and his constant nudging, I have made the switch, whic...
WISE Summit Doha, Qatar 28 Oct 2009 | 06:00 am
I have recently confirmed that in mid November I will be travelling to Doha, Qatar to be part of the World Innovations Summit for Education, hosted by Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Commu...
Finding the Blue Whale 27 Oct 2009 | 06:00 am
To kick off Whale Week (the final few days of work using Endless Ocean in our Sealife topic) with my class I planned to discover the Blue Whale in the Nintendo Wii game. Planning a discovery is I sup...
Google Squared: A Complete Guide 26 Oct 2009 | 03:25 am
Google Squared is a product of Google Labs. It displays your search results in a grid format. Each item found for your search term populates the rows and their common attributes are shown in the colum...
7 New “Interesting Ways to Use” Resources 24 Oct 2009 | 07:30 am
With the half term break upon us here I wanted to introduce some new members of the “Interesting Ways to Use…” family. In addition to the usual types of tech topics I have decided to start some resour...
LearningTech Newsletter Issue#1 23 Oct 2009 | 08:28 am
In my continued efforts to support the staff at my school navigate the ever evolving landscape of educational technology, I have begun producing a fortnightly email newsletter. When sat writing it fo...
Introducing Google Docs to the Class 22 Oct 2009 | 08:27 am
Day one of introducing Google Docs to a class is always an exciting one, I have been fortunate to be able to see three cohorts experience the fun ways to use it. Today we made a start with our Year 5s...
Fish Friday Challenge 17 Oct 2009 | 07:30 am
Today we had our inaugural Fish Friday Challenge. We had so much fun and I am compelled to explain what we did and to encourage you to do something similar with your classes. Whilst I was gathering i...
Nintendo Wii Golf Subtraction 15 Oct 2009 | 09:49 am
We had fun today using Wii Sports Golf during our maths lesson. This week the children have been practising different written methods of subtraction and today we repeated the Wii idea from last year. ...
Climate Change and our Sealife Topic 6 Oct 2009 | 08:46 am
As we continue our Sealife topic we have been exploring the conservation of sea turtles and subsequently climate change. We learned how rising sea levels have a direct impact on sea turtle nesting sit...
