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 [...]

12 November 2008 4 Comments

A little help from Twitter

A little help from Twitter

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 [...]

8 July 2008 11 Comments

Exploring delicious in school

Exploring delicious in school

As I mentioned in a previous post, I originally signed up for delicious without really knowing what to use it for. I was happy with saving bookmarks within my web browser, which were then synced across my computers and mobile phone using .Mac syncing. However, after exploring the social bookmarking aspect of the site and [...]

30 June 2008 2 Comments

Living Life Online

Living Life Online

When I think about it, I spend quite a considerable proportion of my day online… whether that be checking email or RSS feeds on my phone in the morning, using web-based resources in the classroom, or general browsing and other work on my computer at home at other times.
I’m becoming increasing reliant upon web services [...]