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Saturday 28 July 2012
Many moons ago I did a blog post (here) about the apps I had on my newly arrived iPad. Since then I have gone through the various stages of (a) every app I see that tickles me fancy (b) telling myself to stop buying every fancy tickling app (c) managing to cut down the hundreds [...]
Sunday 22 July 2012
Assessment is for Learning (AifL) Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) Education - Future English General ICT for learning
I’ve been trying various apps over the last few weeks for recording, collecting, collating and adding notes for feedback to the various pieces my students have done so far this term. One I looked at was Teacher’s Wire which enabled me to photograph a piece, add the E and Os (Experiences and Outcomes) or levels [...]
Saturday 21 January 2012
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) English General ICT for learning S1
First drafts here – comments, advice and suggestions for better impact welcome! Beyond the Book Report (pdf format) – different ways to do the book report so beloved of English teachers classdojo (pdf format) – the behaviour management system which can be used for other things… I’ll stick the final versions and supporting weblinks etc [...]
Tuesday 27 December 2011
Trying to produce A4 sheet with all main points for Nat 4/5 exams. Does chart below do the job? Feel free to amend or delete whilst laughing in demented fashion National 4/5 outline chart (Word document)
Saturday 15 October 2011
This is the the blog post published on the Scottish Book Trust site Thursday 6th October 2011. Due to a word limit of 500 words on the SBT, here’s the full version. Over the years one of the main problems we have experienced in education is the huge effort that goes into getting boys to [...]
Sunday 29 May 2011
The Apple iPad 2. I finally got my hands on one about a month ago and since then I’ve been playing, adding and removing apps, trialling them in the classroom environment and generally trying to see if and how I can use it effectively and not just as a replacement for my school PC for [...]
Tuesday 12 April 2011
RM Slate- report on use during two week loan The RM Slate is a Windows 7 Pro tablet available from Research Machines for around £400. Simon Williams from RM kindly arranged via twitter to loan me one for a fortnight to see if it would help any of my students. On arrival, the Slate was [...]
Monday 11 April 2011
I link to this by Tom DeRosa (Texas) in full as it is a great wee series of blog posts that should be read by teachers everywhere: “Around this time last year, I wrote a series of posts entitled On Success and On Failure. I shared my five greatest successes and five worst failures of [...]
Sunday 27 March 2011
I often use old university essays and suchlike to show my kids how they will have to write if they get there. It both encourages and discourages them when they see how much they have to write, and eventually understand that they only have a fortnight or three weeks at most to research, draft and [...]