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Perins School ICT development day – outstanding!

daibarnes — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 19:10:25 +0000

Gideon Williams, Director of ICT at Perins School, hosted a development day for ICT in his school involving all the key stakeholders from inside and outside the school: Gideon (at the start, discusses what has and hasn’t happened from past planning) Teachers (transforming learning – at 40 minutes, 1:1 notebook project at 2:14) Pupils (about [...]

iPad. Have you seen one in your classroom?

daibarnes — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 19:24:26 +0000

I just sent this email to the teachers in my school. I am feeling a little uncomfortable with it. What do you think? Much hype has surrounded the iPad. Overpriced. Limited in what it can do. An iPod Touch Xtra Large. All true. We bought one for my eldest’s 18th to accompany him to Oxford. [...]

Macs, Schools, Pedagogy and Australia

daibarnes — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:22:39 +0000

This morning my school were lucky enough to be visited by Barbara Stone and Westley Field from MLC School in Australia. They talked us through their use of technology. It was very impressive. Westley showed me photos of children in the playground busily chatting away over their macbooks. It’s an independent school and every pupil [...]

TeachMeet Moodle presentation

daibarnes — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 14:00:25 +0000

Many thanks to the legendary Leon Cych (@eyebeams) without whom this would not be a video. PS there was no camel so it goes on longer than the usual 7 minutes. The answer my friend, is blowing in the wind. Using technology in the classroom, using it for learning, is an endeavour that engages some [...]

Teaching and Learning survey

daibarnes — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 18:19:24 +0000

At my school we decided some kind of benchmark was needed to measure pupil satisfaction with their education. I set about writing a teaching and learning survey. Not as easy as it first appeared. I decided on Google Forms because they are so simple to construct and deliver. This is finished now (at least for [...]

Happy Fathers Day to me

daibarnes — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 12:49:41 +0000

This is my fathers day haul. My daughter made me some truffle chocolates (yum yum – they are delicious), a super dad toblerone, a nice muffin (sensing a theme here?). A loaf of my favourite bread. Last but by no means least, a pair of vibram five finger shoes. They are fabulous. A bit odd [...]

e-safety

daibarnes — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 11:10:05 +0000

I started writing a Moodle course for e-safety this week. I am authorised to deliver the CEOP materials but the course will be taught by another teacher as well so I cannot use these in the course. Instead I have gone for (lesson 1): teach-ict.com e-safety quiz games a social networking flash video a Moodle [...]

My Mac and me. But why?

daibarnes — Tue, 04 May 2010 20:04:52 +0000

I did it. After XX years as an ICT teacher I caved and spent money I haven’t got on a MacBookPro. So far, what do I like? hardware is better quality and it all relates to operating system. Magnetic power lead is so clever I could write a thesis on it. all the software I [...]

Wallwisher.com: sticky note online collaboration

daibarnes — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 09:02:30 +0000

Name WallWisher URL http://wallwisher.com What is it? An online pin board that everyone can pin things on. Allows teachers and pupils to collaborate on one web page. Double click the web page to add a new note. Fill in your name and enter your text and links to relevant websites including videos. Good for whole [...]

Email productivity

daibarnes — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 19:14:52 +0000

I thought this might prove useful to some teachers. Here are some tips you might like to help you manage email fast and forever (and yes, they do include the delete key). http://five.sentenc.es/ (very brief justification of five sentence rule, also leads to the more efficient two sentence rule – how low can you go?) [...]