After reading, listening and watching what Jack Sloan had done at Chorlton Park I have embarked on a Voice Threading project. I will be uploading details as soon as I have anything to report! Watch this space!
November 26, 2009
New Webshop to help raise funds!
I have used a company called www.buy.at to create a webshop that is linked to our school site. The school gets anything up to 12% of what people spend through the webshop which directs people to over 150 retailers. Knowing how the system works from using it at another school I found that momentum was very [...]
November 24, 2009
School launches Twitter for parents.
Since September 2009 my school has been focussing on how we communicate to parents. In this short time, we have revamped our school VLE to give us more of a web presence. We have introduced texting service to parents. Not only is the texting service used for general announcements, but it is used to pass on [...]
My Little Year 6 ICT Survey
After listening to Prof. Stephen Heppell back in July 09, I tried this survey to find out what kind of ICT profile I had in my Year 6 class. The survey was carried out with children’s heads down on desks. When children were asked a question they had to raise their hand so only I [...]
November 22, 2009
My School's blogging journey begins now!
After a sensational day at Chorlton Park Primary School last week I decided that blogging was the way forward for the children at my school. I just felt that giving the children a worldwide audience was right for my school. We have a failry active VLE with Uniservity at present but it is very restrictive [...]
November 21, 2009
About me
I’m a Deputy Head Teacher at a Bolton Primary School. I love my job and really enjoy anything ICT, I also love exploring how ICT can help children engage in their learning. I am very much at the beginning of my blogging journey but plan to introduce blogging to my school outside of the VLE. I have [...]
