My brand new Digital Leaders have been trying the brilliance that is the makewav.es site. For those not clear, makewav.es provides a safe environment for pupils to share blogs, video, stories and photos about subjects which can be linked to digital badges. This then allows you (the teacher/ administrator person)Continue Reading
I thought I would share a recent example of of the integrated way in which various digital/social platforms can be linked and used in the classroom. Context first: Y6 class, space topic. The pupils have a blog, created on blogger, which the teacher updates. Literacy unit (and linked work)Continue Reading
Since I posted a page which had tips on how to get blogging started in school blogging seems to be increasing in popularity, certainly within the primary schools I work in we have teachers, and pupils, blogging for all sorts of reasons. More and more research is available on theContinue Reading
I am currently beginning my research for my dissertation and, in part thanks to my experience with the iPad in school, I have decided to focus on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning. Whilst the specifics of my research are yet to be worked out preliminary reading around the subject has provenContinue Reading
In the new year my focus point will be the new curriculum. Literacy: when I began training there was lots of support for the teaching of literacy, the national strategies were in their heydey and every school I trained at and worked at had several copies of government publishedContinue Reading
Are you blogging in the classroom already? Blogs are incredibly easy to set up, and there are plenty around to give you inspiration. You could begin here. The question is, why bother? There seems to be plenty of examples about pupils who would not write, or were reluctant writers,Continue Reading