Safe to Fail
I’ve been spending a fair bit of time in WoW recently, attempting to mash it into the PLTS framework to see what comes out the other end. More on that to come. In this post I want to talk about failing...
View ArticleYou are good at games, you just don’t want to be
Studying games based learning means I tend to encounter the phrase ‘I’m no good at games’ a fair bit. The problem I have with it is I’m not sure it is possible. What people who say this actually mean...
View ArticleGoogle Docs at parents evening
Saw a really nice simple use of Google docs this afternoon that our admin department came up with.. On arrival at school all parents sign in at the front desk so we know who’s on site. By switching the...
View ArticleCaptio: Quick notes for iPhone
Captio is one of those iPhone apps that are actively making my life better. Which is quite a bold claim for something that only costs £1.50. The longer I’ve had a smartphone the more I find I send...
View ArticleInterviewing IT Technicians
We’ve been learning about the best way to interview edu IT staff in various guises for almost 10 years now. In the last couple of weeks we’ve been advising a couple of other organisations on how to...
View ArticleBlogging our CPD
We’ve just had another round of meetings with our school improvement groups at Wildern. The SIGs are voluntary groups that run as half-termly after school meetings for groups of staff to work together...
View ArticleBroadcasting Literacy Hour
This time last year I wrote a post documenting our first high profile attempt at webcasting. We’ve taken that idea and moved on to look at CPD. Last week we used part of our CPD day to deliver ‘The...
View Article3 reasons why Instacast is better than the new Podcasts app
I’ve had both of these apps on my iPhone 4 for a couple of weeks now, and as much as I want to like the new Podcast app it’s really not working for me. 1) Speed. I don’t subscribe to that many podcasts...
View ArticleIt’s not a shopping list
I’m slowly coming to the conclusion that telling people what tools we use might be a mistake. Or, is at least distracting from what is really important. We’re a frequent host to visiting SLTs and IT...
View ArticleTaming the email beast
I get a lot of email. A lot. To the point where it was not only taking up too much of my working day, but becoming a distraction outside of it. I’ve been working on making how I use email more...
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