About

My name is appears to be stuck on the blog, so I guess I don’t need to tell you that!

The author, a bit chilly, nr Letchworth, England.

I am a teacher in my seventh year of the profession. A lot of the content of this blog is secondary-orientated, because until quite recently I was a Head of Department (Media) in a secondary school.

However I have recently made the change to Primary education for the thrill and challenge of working in a completely new and different way. My interests remain broadly similar though – here are my priorities at the moment:

• Using audio technology as much as possible in the classroom to record, reflect and replay students’ knowledge production in the classroom
• Trying to get to grips with the idea of using SKYPE to communicate with other classrooms!
• Developing the use of music and literacy to increase engagement with a core subject.
• Using the website diigo to help students develop their independent research skills.
• Getting to grips with being a subject leader for literacy!

I hope to help change in my school; I would like to think it possible that I can help change in others. Communication and conversation between others is what I seek the most; the way to learn that I enjoy the most and I think I learn the most from.

I would particularly like to hear from people, be they teachers or anyone, who feels they have a stake in how technology can be used in our schools.  My ambitions with this are humble; I hope to be able to upload videos and audio that sketch out what I’m doing and I hope to be able to point in the direction of things that are being done. Please check out my blogroll and links for some of the best stuff I’ve found and let me know what you think about the kind of things I’m investigating. Thanks for taking the time to read.

Quite possibly my favourite song, my favourite band, my favourite songwriter.