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ICT innovation. Now in a bottle

At Porchester Junior, we're really proud of the ICT innovation that takes place in the school - across all the classrooms by all the staff.

In fact, we're so proud of it that we wanted to share it with others. We've thought long and hard about this and been asking ourselves the question; what is it exactly that we could share with others? 

Going out with a Bang

Here's a rare thing - a post. A post on this site!

Quite a while ago Dughall McCormick (@dughall) introduced me to something new - Augmented Reality through Aurasma. The same evening as he introduced it, I began thinking of how to use it within education. You can see some of the experiments in this blog. It was whilst these experiments were undertaken that an idea was beginning to form in the back of my mind. It was ambitious. It was ridiculous. But with new web based tools that were being released on a regular basis, it was becoming more and more evident that it might just be possible to achieve.

Just Beautiful...

First it was an app and a short animated film, and now it's become...

...a wonderful book that can be read and adored by children and adults alike. Plus, if you download the 'Imag N O tron' app it becomes an Augmented Reality book with additional extras and suprises. Buy it, download it. Admire it.

Chocolate Frogs, Alleyways and Castles

Yesterday I took my daughter and a friend of hers to the Harry Potter Studio Tour experience for a birthday treat. We travelled into - and then back out of - London before reaching the complex at Leavesden. We travelled by East Midlands Trains and a double decker bus and not, unfortunately, via the Hogwarts Express and the Knight Bus.

It's the weekend

It's Friday afternoon, and the August Bank holiday weekend beckons. So, let's just have a look at the checklist for this weekend then.

BBC News - The Premiership footballer hatred vortex

Brilliant article on the BBC Magazine about attitudes towards footballers following this summers Olympics...

The achievements of Team GB at the Olympics have led to a wave of criticism of footballers. They've been lambasted for being overpaid, arrogant underachievers. But why do some people hate footballers so much?

Ex-England striker Michael Owen knew there was trouble ahead when the Olympics started.

In a post on his blog he wrote: "I turned to my wife, Louise, while sat in our lounge at home watching the Olympics, and said, 'just you watch footballers get hammered once this is over'. And here we are two weeks on with the bandwagon in full flow."

via www.bbc.co.uk

Time for the Happy Dance...

...following an email that arrived tonight;

There's only one thing that I've ordered from RS Components...

...that'll be the Raspberry Pi then. Whoooop!! :o)

Erm... and the purpose of this app is?

Not too long ago our old faithful CRT TV set finally gave up the ghost and died on us. After struggling to remove the dead weight of an old fashioned TV set, we splashed out and bought a Samsung Smart TV, with its SmartHub feature.

A blast from the past

I was having a clear out of my study, and whilst looking through my "man tin" of bits and bobs I came across a blast from the past. A little longer than an iPhone, but narrower and thinner, it was an essential item back in the days.

Apparently, the football has begun...

I was clicking through the BBC website to get to the sports section this evening when I noticed a small picture with a tiny headline below it. Apparently, the 2012/13 football season has begun!

When the wind changed

The title of this post is based around a quote from the Disney Mary Poppins film. You may remember that before Mary arrives at the Banks' house to take over nannying duties and sort things out, the wind changes direction first.

Blogging Best Practices: Photo Use and Attribution

Brilliant post from the Typepad team explaining all about image attribution.

It's a simple rule of blogging: images add visual interest to your posts and that's a good thing. But beyond that, finding and using images can be a little complicated. What if you don't have your own image to use? What if the absolutely perfect image is owned by someone else?

via everything.typepad.com