YouTube adverts - an update

Yesterday I posted about my concerns over YouTube suddenly adding adverts to the school channel and, as I later discovered, also appearing before and over...

Learning Platform Thoughts New Media
19 Feb 2012 10:27
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One step forward, one step back

Anyone who has read the articles I have posted on this site over the years will now how I feel about the filtering service that...

Learning Platform Thoughts New Media
18 Feb 2012 14:31
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A young persons guide to the [iPad] orchestra

On a Friday in school, we have a 'creative' afternoon. Some children have Ukulele lessons, guitar lessons or recorder lessons. We also have our singing...

iPadding 
13 Feb 2012 15:04
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Just who do they represent?

Back in 2008 I worked at a school in Nottingham City. It was a nice school. A caring school. A Victorian school. A school with...

RANTing on
2 Feb 2012 18:27
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2Investigate: Creating, Interrogating and Understanding databases

In our Upper school ICT topic recently we have been learning to create, interrogate, and understand Databases. As we used 2InvestigateOnline, one of the many...

Recommended Resources
28 Jan 2012 22:15
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ICT. A new beginning?

Let's be honest. I don't like Gove. I never have done in all the time he has been secretary of state for education. He doesn't...

RANTing on
12 Jan 2012 12:16
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New year. New start. New attitude.

2011 - A year of unbelievable ideas, suggestions and flawed thinking from the Department of Education, and in particular from Michael Gove and his Chamber...

General articles
1 Jan 2012 17:14

A Merry Monkey Christmas

Funnies
2 Dec 2011 19:06

Formula1. The Final Curtain.

I felt a little sad this afternoon, as I geared up (sorry for the pun) for the race from Brazil, because it was the last...

Sports
27 Nov 2011 17:35

iOS5, iCloud and iWish

The recent release of iOS5 has introduced some changes to how we use the iPads within school. The most fundamental change has been iCloud. It...

iPadding 
16 Nov 2011 18:38

Assessing Primary ICT

“How can I assess the pupils understanding of ICT?”. A question often asked by primary ICT coordinators and assessment managers at schools throughout the country....

Recommended Resources
9 Nov 2011 20:49

Formula1: Procession or Racing?

Let me start by saying that I love watching Formula1. I love the sport. It's not just the racing, its the tactics that take place...

Sports
30 Oct 2011 13:43

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