I read Protect the Teachmeet Format by Tom Barrett, with a slight feeling of guilt.
I read Protect the Teachmeet Format by Tom Barrett, with a slight feeling of guilt.
Every once in a while you hear something that makes you think “Ah! That’s how it is.” I thought that when I heard Mick Waters, former head of the QCDA speak to a group of Birmingham Deputy Heads last year. He left me with the memory of a quadrant graph (pictured above) of the four main ways he sees being used in schools to change things.
At Teachmeet BETT 2011 I tweeted that my year 6 had created various renditions of the SATs Lady using Audacity. I also realised that I had not at any point shared their musical productions. The year 6 children that made these recordings have left now (the project happened in Summer 2010), but maybe their creativity can serve to inspire future generations of Year 6 SATs musicians.
(Apologies – these files haven’t copied across properly from Posterous).
We launched our Google Apps for Education account 6 weeks ago. Staff and students have been using it increasingly over this time, although there’s still a long way to go. This video helps to explain what I think about VLEs in primary schools, why Google Apps is a good choice and some of the ways we are beginning to use it.
It’s 7:30 as I start writing this and I’m just about to visit my friend and CEOPS trained advisor Craig Gilman to make final preparations for ‘Safer Internet Day’ tomorrow.
I taught, filmed and edited this lesson on Friday 4th February
I’ve often thought that the answers on the back of a Trivial Pursuits card are more interesting than the questions. The questions are always so closed, aren’t they? You can’t do anything with them apart from get them right or wrong. But the answers… well there’s lots of things you can do with them.
geography:Â Silicon Valleyentertainment:Â Inflationhistory:Â Teaart and literature:Â Salvador Daliscience:Â Citroen’ssport and leisure:Â The United States PGA
So a quick Google shows that Adam Nash, CA, blogged in 2008 that the extreme economics of the computing industry in Silicon Valley distorted inflation figures so badly that it changed US monetary policy. Meanwhile in the same year, Mayank Sharma writes that inflation can be explained by a cup of tea. Meanwhile one-time lead singer with Roxy Music, Bryan Ferry claims to have had tea with Salvador Dali of all people in the UK paper, the Mirror, back in 2010. Speaking of Dali, there seem to many comparison’s between him and Citroen’s cars, ranging from a positive, if surreal, driving experience, through thoughts about the Citroen’s bizarre rear windscreens, through less positive comments indicating that some concepts cars could well deserve to appear in a Dali painting.I then see that Ketel One, a dutch vodka company both make a variety called ‘Citroen‘ and sponsor the United States PGA (and have been doing so since 2005). Finally I see that the US PGA visited Silicon Valley in October 2010 at Cordevalle.
Tweet me and I’ll let you in on the answers, although it may be easier to Google them.