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It's been one of those days today

It has been. It's been one of those days that teachers have - occasionally - where you leave school, and you can say to yourself "That's why I became a teacher".

Making Google Apps safer?

I've been sat in front of the computer cursing, typing, cursing, fuming, scratching my head, cursing, tutting and generally getting annoyed over the past 24hours. Why? Because I'm trying to make Google Apps better -and safer - for the children to use in school.

Reviewing our journey

Back in June 2009 I posted an article that would be the start of a fascinating journey that myself and the school would embark upon. It was an article about the wonders of the VLE / MLE that all schools were being told to set up.

Collaborating, the 2Simple way

I've just been playing with the '2Investigate' program within 2Simples PurpleMash creative online learning package that we use in school, and in particular the new 'collaborative' feature of 2Investigate.

A few tweaks...

With the school being closed as a result of the weather at the end of last week, I have had chance to tinker with, and to tweak, the school website.

It's that time of the year again

The temperature has dropped drastically. The snow is falling and settling. Winter has well and truly arrived in the UK this week. And it's just in time too. We're on the verge of moving into December, and that means just one thing...

A crackin' day of ICT

There are days you like to forget, there are days you like to remember. Today has been one of the latter types of days.

More on usernames and passwords

Earlier in the week I posted how our pupils access the online services we use in school. I mentioned Google Edu Apps, Typepad and PurpleMash in particular, and how we had set up accounts so that the pupils only needed to remember one unique username and password.

Hitting a Purple Patch

As I've mentioned before, when the Local Authority informed us of its official Learning Platform solution, and invited us on our training days for it, both the HT and myself decided it wasn't for us. I'm not going to go into the reasons why again here, I've mentioned it before in other posts on this site, but I will say again that it left us looking for our own bespoke solution.

It's all relative

The last few days have driven me slowly mad! As I mentioned in the last post, I've changed the navigation on the website, removed all the random navigation, and put in a single, central navigation bar.

A Coding Challenge

It's that time of the year again. The new school year beckons, and in anticipation of it I've been casting a critical eye over the school website.

Planning for the new term

It's the first week of the school holidays, and I am busy working towards September. I am thinking about our ICT lessons throughout the school as I am in the fortunate position that I will have one lesson with every class each week.