Developing blogging as a department

One of the most exciting changes I’ve had to contend with recently is that I am now a Head of Department – in Media. This (pretty much) ideally fitted the work I’ve been developing in this blog, so the opportunity to take some of the matter contained in here and begin to develop it more [...]

Social networking: The new ‘McGuffin’ in Education?

‘Social networking’ is the latest ubiquitous term in educational usage of ICT; right now to me it feels like it is everywhere. Controversy continues to abound regarding the issue of teachers having personal profiles on websites like Facebook and Twitter. I have very mixed feelings about whether I should make my Twitter profile private – I feel [...]

Twitter and Education

My twitter is here. I’ve briefly talked about twitter before, but those eagle-eyed web-perusers will have noticed that in my left sidebar I have an RSS feed which I’ve named ‘Twitter and Teaching’. I’m still not sure how the heck I’d use twitter in the classroom – the main problem is that the site is, [...]

Plans afoot with diigo and skype

Over the next few weeks in school I’m beginning to push out in some new areas with regards to using technology in the classroom. I’m beginning to feel relatively comfortable and proficient with podcasting, through the use of audacity. I hope in the future to start the process of getting other teachers in my school [...]

Diigo.com

The subject of this week’s blog is diigo, a website that I have been getting to grips with in the past week or so. I think it offers a real chance to change practice within the classroom. Firstly, its features: Diigo is a free service that allows you to trawl the web and bookmark websites [...]

Multiple choice essays

This leaves me a little worried, as an English teacher……..