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 [...]

3 July 2009 0 Comments

Games to Enhance Learning

Games to Enhance Learning

Following my day at the Kent ICT conference yesterday (I’ll write another post about this later), I’ve set up a new ‘Ideas to Inspire‘ presentation… to share games that can be used to enhance learning.

Games to Enhance Learning
Teachers are increasingly using games to develop learning in their classrooms, so this will hopefully be another useful [...]

16 June 2009 2 Comments

Inspiring Youtube Videos

Inspiring Youtube Videos

Last week, I stumbled across a fun little Youtube video showing the challenges faced by a baby squirrel. After sharing this on Twitter, I received an idea about using the video at school from McTeach. I then started to wonder how nice it would be to have a collection of inspirational Youtube videos which could [...]

29 May 2009 2 Comments

Over 500 Ideas to Inspire!

Over 500 Ideas to Inspire!

Ideas to Inspire now has over 500 ideas! The site originally started as somewhere to host my ‘Ideas to Inspire Writing‘ presentation. Since then, Tom Barrett, Doug Belshaw, Mark Clarkson, Joe Rowing, Tony Cassidy and Noel Jenkins have kindly allowed me to add their presentations to the site, which all receive hundreds of visitors each [...]