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 [...]
After my initial experiences with Etherpad, I was keen to use the tool in the classroom. We had an opportunity to do so this week… with some pleasing results and some interesting reactions from the children!
The situation:
We have started another unit of persuasive writing, which requires the children to write persuasive letters. Last year, we [...]
Wow! I’m shocked… I’m stunned… and I’m completely gobsmacked. Just over an hour ago, I sent a tweet to Mandy Barrow asking if she had any good ideas for a WWII day that we’re running in school. She suggested setting up an Etherpad, inviting members of our Twitter networks to join and contribute ideas.
After a [...]
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