Teaching, technology and anything else on my mind…
Twitter is a fantastic tool which allows you to post short messages online (140 characters max), telling people what you are doing. However, the main strength of Twitter comes from following others (and being followed by them), allowing conversations to develop between each other.
Today, I was looking for an online brainstorming tool. I know that [...]
Rodd Lucier has suggested 20 ways of using Wordle (which I found via Simon Mills’ fantastic blog). I’ve tried one of these ways above… this Wordle shows the history of completed tasks from my Toodledo list. As you can see, I take backups seriously!
Simon has also posted his experiences of using Wordle in the classroom. This looks [...]
The final week of last term was a particularly hectic one, as we had parents’ consultation evenings, Harvest celebrations and a road safety day at school. This meant that we only had three mornings available for our Literacy lessons. There certainly wasn’t enough time to start a new unit of work, so I decided to [...]
Every so often at school, I’m able to run a staff meeting. I always enjoy these, as it’s a chance for me to share new ideas about ICT with other members of staff. Many of our ICT meetings are linked to new software or equipment that has arrived in school, but I wanted this one [...]
As I mentioned in previous posts, I keep a list of things that I need to do online using Toodledo. A few weeks ago, I picked up a quick tip which shows a mini version of my To Do list on my computer’s screen.
How to do this:
1) Install / use a different browser to the one that you [...]