17 January 2010 1 Comment

BETT 2010 – my best BETT (part two)

BETT 2010 – my best BETT (part two)

As I mentioned in part one of these posts, the Teachmeet event and the sense of community  at this year’s BETT was the highlight for me. In the past, my BETT visits had always been about visiting stands and seeing new software and gadgets. This year, it was about meeting a wonderful collection of educators, [...]

13 January 2010 1 Comment

Making Super Stories, Brilliant Books and more…

Making Super Stories, Brilliant Books and more…

This post was originally published here.
I’m a big fan of 2Simple’s software… this week alone, my Year 3 pupils have used:

2Connect to make mind maps showing their existing knowledge of Italy at the start of the topic.
2Paint a Picture to design logos for an Italian restaurant business that they have been challenged to create for [...]

13 January 2010 0 Comments

Mr Warner at BETT

Mr Warner at BETT

I have set up a new Posterous blog to use while I am attending BETT on Friday and Saturday of this week. I usually see lots of interesting and exciting things, so I’m going to be using this new blog as a way of recording these (so that I don’t forget) and also to share [...]

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7 January 2010 5 Comments

Twittering in the Snow

Twittering in the Snow

Lots of schools in the UK have had ‘Snow Days’ and have been closed this week because of the snowy weather. Luckily, our school hasn’t closed so far although we had quite a lot of snow last night. This meant that my journey to school was a little treacherous this morning. It also meant that [...]

25 November 2009 0 Comments

ICT Survey

ICT Survey

A few days ago, I read a really interesting blog post by David Mitchell, which you can view here. To summarise, David had carried a quick survey of his Year 6 class to find out about their use of ICT at home and asked the following questions:

Put up your hand if you have a computer [...]

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