So, we will be getting the first look at the new National Curriculum on March 1. This has been a while in the making but hopefully will be met with much less controversy than the heralded-and-maligned-at-the-same-time My School website. The government even have a website ready and waiting for every educator to (socially) bookmark. Says [...]
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I work three days a week in a primary classroom. So, theoretically, I am in a good position for putting edtech and Web 2.0 idealism into a realistic roadtest situation. I don’t stand behind podiums at conferences berating and exhorting the masses to bring their classroom into the digital world. I don’t have influential push [...]
[Some of my students] [were designing their] [covers for their High Flyer folders] … when I noticed that they were on a number of free font websites. I thought that I would warn them that while I had no problem with them browsing fonts, they would be unable to download their choice onto the school [...]
Today I attended Cybersafety Outreach – a workshop program put together by ACMA under their cyber (smart:) banner addressing the issues around cybersafety and cyberbullying. It was very comprehensive and rather than rehash the program, I thought I’d share a few takeaways and thoughts from the day. Firstly, I’ve been critical of similar previous presentations [...]
This is now the third week of the school year. The class is settling, I’m putting one foot after the other in my share of the team teaching duties and there seems to be a lengthy stream of things to GET DONE as the year slips out of first gear and starts to become more [...]
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