Whilst chatting on Twitter today, I mentioned a little tip that I picked up listening to Tim Rylands present at BMobLE in 2010. Approached from his left, Tim took the Starbucks cup from Sarah’s hand, politely nodded and with a brief exchange of smiles Tim moved back to the centre of his stage. Tim wanted [...]
January 26, 2012
Learning with Tim Rylands
Qatar may be 4326.9 miles away from me, however, this didn’t come in the way of me joining 66 pupils at The Qatar Academy with Tim Rylands and Sarah Neild this morning. I was lucky enough to be able to Skype into their learning and see the magic taking place. Sarah even took me on [...]
January 17, 2012
Nominated for two LWF12 Awards – Standing in the shadows of giants
I first realised something was wrong when my phone started to ligrepeats repeatedly during lessons this morning. I was knee deep in pupil progress meetings from lunchtime but did see a message flagging up the news that I had beeshorter listed for the Primary Education innovator category and to an even bigger shock the special [...]
January 16, 2012
Feb29th.net – A Global Blogging Project
Last week I launched Feb29th.net with the help from Peter Ford and John Sutton. After seeing first hand the power that an audience can have on pupils raising writing levels from 9% Level 5 to 60% Level 5 in 12 months. Not only that but impacting on progress, resulting in the last 2 Year 6 [...]
January 11, 2012
BETT Show 2012 London
Seeing as though there are loads of hashtags including the official #BETT_Show tag, Coveritlive seemed like the bast place to collate them all for me: BETT Show 2012
January 4, 2012
Anthologize plugin to create the analogue of the digital!
A few people who were present at the Silverstone Blogging Masterclass at the back end of 2011 saw the look in my eyes as Peter Ford was showcasing Anthologize. Now this little plugin has AWESOME potential. My eyes were dripping with ideas as Peter showed how simple it was to produce a pdf booklet of [...]
