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Google Teacher Academy here I come

June 26, 2010 in google teacher academy, learning, raves

#gtauk

I received an email last night notifying me that I had been selected to participate in the Google Teacher Academy UK to be held in London on the 29th July. To say I was very happy is an understatement. I’m really looking forward to it, to meeting all the other educators who have also been selected (shame everyone who entered couldn’t go) and to finding out just what it will all entail.

Now excuse me while I run around the garden again shouting for joy

Tags: creativity, google, google teacher academy, Inspirational, learning, sharing, teacher, teaching
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Collaborative bookmarking is delicious

April 29, 2010 in learning, Resources in the classroom, thoughts, tools

I was supposed to hold the second ‘Are you up to IcT?’ session in my school today but unfortunately other matters arose. However, I am presenting the video I was going to show. It’s more of a ‘look what you can do with delicious’ rather than a ‘how to’ guide. I hope it’s useful to you.

Why delicious is so attractive

one account that everyone can have access to
sharing of bookmarks without emailing and written notes
access to bookmarks from any computer
easy to search and find forgotten bookmarks
connections with other users is easy and opens up so many more bookmarks and uses

Tags: bookmarking, bookmarks, collaborate, collaboration, delicious, sharing
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Sharing is GREAT

April 27, 2010 in learning, raves, Resources in the classroom, thoughts, tools

This afternoon I began ‘Are you up to IcT?’ staff training in my school and the reaction I received was positive. I demonstrated Sqworl and bit.ly to teachers from Early years to KS2 and they all found the tools useful. So much so that later that afternoon two staff registered with sqworl and created their own sqworl groups which they used with their class.

If you have a tool that you use, if you have a tip that makes your teaching easier, if you are holding onto a special something that others could benefit from then share it.

Tags: inspiration, Inspirational, learning, share, sharing, tools
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Are you up to IcT?

April 21, 2010 in learning, Resources in the classroom

Hiding in plain sight ©EJP Photo

As an ICT Coordinator in my school one of my responsibilities is to ensure that the staff, as well as the children, are using technology effectively and are up to date with new practices and tools. To achieve this I have put together a 12 week course that should go some length to addressing this. The course is due to start next week so I’ve got quite a bit to put together before then. But here’s the outline of what I’m proposing to do and over the next few weeks as the course progresses I will update this blog on what occurs, staff feedback on the course, reactions to the training I give and what works/doesn’t work.

This course will not be based on listening to me waffling on. It’s hands on at all times.

I’m also going to record my short sessions for embedding on this blog.

Initial outline