No, we are not expecting another baby quite yet but came across this video of molly at 28 weeks INSIDE Karen!! We went to Royal Bolton Hospital as I new a midwife there and they had just got hold of a new 4D scanning machine and we were invited in whilst they played on it [...]
December 22, 2010
Playing with Dipity.com
I’ve been wanting to spend some time with www.dipity.com for some weeks now. I have created a timeline that takes feeds from my blog, twitter and youtube. I’m only playing with it at the minute but it does look good. Just seeing if when I add a blog post it updates the timeline? All about [...]
December 19, 2010
Another passion of mine…
I have been a big petrolhead since before I could drive and have had a collection of cars from terrible to pretty good. In my spare time, I co-run a car club called NW-Roadsters. This story of this club began back in 2002 when I bought a little MGF in Gold: The MG scene is [...]
December 16, 2010
Who’s your Clown Loach?
Before I had a daughter (when I actually had some money!) I used to be a very keen tropical fish keeper and even bred certain fish. I started like everyone with some of the more hardy fish like Guppies and Swordtails etc. but soon moved onto more challenging fish to keep. Fish keeping is a [...]
December 10, 2010
Quad blogging – Real Wider Audiences for Pupils
2011 looks like it might be the ‘Year of the Blog’! Blogging has been around for so long but with the arrival of new tools each week, class blogging is growing each week. On Twitter there are new blogs being promoted each week which is just great. It almost seems strange to think that only [...]
December 5, 2010
My VitalCPD Teachshare Poll
In preparation for my VitalCPD Teachshare on Monday 6th December at 8pm, I have added a poll for anyone that thinks they might be watching and listening online. Please vote for the types of things you would like to hear about. You can add your own answers to the poll too and vote for more [...]
How I’m using ‘Epic Citadel’ iPad App with 10 year olds.
I wouldn’t know anything about the App or what to do with it without watching and speaking to Tim Rylands and without speaking to Pete Richardson at a Teachmeet in Blackpool: Last week Heathfield got hold of our first piece of handheld kit – an iPad! We used a great App called Epic Citadel by [...]
December 2, 2010
What a 7 days…
The last 7 days have been absolutely crazy for me and HeathfieldCPS. Don’t get me wrong – in a good way! I found out about 6 weeks ago that HeathfieldCPS had won the Toshiba ICT Redesign Award through the SSAT after a long process involving a judging/assessment day back in September. The application for the [...]
