19 September 2009 2 Comments

Teachmeet Sussex Kent ‘09

Teachmeet Sussex Kent ‘09

Last night was the first Teachmeet for Sussex and Kent. It took place at The Hop Farm in Paddock Wood and was a fantastic evening. I hope that I’ve managed to collate everyone’s ideas, presentations and links below… if I’ve missed anything, please let me know and I’ll update the post.

Mark Warner (twitter) – Using Memiary [...]

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 [...]

28 March 2009 29 Comments

Enhancing communication with Edmodo

Enhancing communication with Edmodo

This week, I’ve been playing with Edmodo. If you’re not familiar with the site, it defines itself as ‘a private communication platform for teachers and students’. I’ve also heard it being labelled as ‘Twitter for Schools’. However, Twitter is a public system (with the ability to make individual messages private) whereas Edmodo is 100% private [...]