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18 September 2009 4 Comments

Using Memiary in the Classroom

I have been using Memiary for 125 days now (on a personal level) recording five things that I have done each day. Since writing my previous blog post, I have now started using it with my class each day and it has become extremely popular. So much so that the children remind me that we need to [...]

4 July 2009 2 Comments

Kent ICT Conference ‘09

Kent ICT Conference ‘09

Phew.. what a week! Over the past seven days, I’ve been busy with an Ofsted inspection at school, our summer fair, and a visit to (including a short presentation at) the Kent ICT conference 2009.
The conference was a chance to learn new ideas from the many speakers and talk to suppliers of educational / ICT [...]

16 June 2009 2 Comments

Inspiring Youtube Videos

Inspiring Youtube Videos

Last week, I stumbled across a fun little Youtube video showing the challenges faced by a baby squirrel. After sharing this on Twitter, I received an idea about using the video at school from McTeach. I then started to wonder how nice it would be to have a collection of inspirational Youtube videos which could [...]

12 June 2009 5 Comments

Our Podcasting Challenge

Our Podcasting Challenge

As part of my role, I am sometimes asked to support other schools with ICT work. This might involve training teachers or teaching demo lessons at their schools. This week, I had the challenge of going into another school and showing them how to podcast. Although I’ve been podcasting with children at my own school [...]

1 June 2009 4 Comments

Memiary… what did our class do today?

Memiary… what did our class do today?

I’ve been using Memiary for a few weeks now, after seeing the iPhone app featured in the Apple’s App Store. It’s a really simple application / site with a simple concept… you simply answer the question ‘what did you do today?’
Every day, you are given the chance to record a maximum of five things that [...]

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