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Have you seen the school website recently? The recent posts have shown a subtle difference in their content. There is a post about a trip a class featuring an animoto slideshow. There is another post featuring video content, and posts with audio too. All these posts could have linked to the slideshow, the video and the audio but a revolution has begun in school...

Yes!!

What a roller coaster season this has been - especially OFF the field, but at long last it has happened. Notts are crowned champions this evening. Who'd have thought this in March when we were 14 points behind the league leaders?

Today a network saved my life

Sounds a little like a song title, but it's not. It's a statement. And what's more - it's true! I was contemplating beginning to plan the rest of the summer terms literacy work this morning (long story, but the teacher who was all set to do the planning is off long term ill, so I've stepped in).

Reliving the past

This weekend I seem to have been revisiting two of my earlier achievements - one a project carried out as part of my Digital Teacher secondment in 2003/4, and the other a project carried out with other teaching colleagues around the country.

Time for some plane thinking?

Transportation is a big news item at the moment here in the UK, due to the effects of the Icelandic Volcano that has recently become extremely active with it's spreading ash cloud. As a result, the skies over the country have become very quiet with no air traffic at all.

Changes to search

Typepad - my blog hosts, and the school's website provider - have recently introduced a search facility to their suite of widgets. Previously, I had been using Freefind - a wonderful FREE service - to crawl my site and then host a search facility.

A handy 2D&M hint

If you use 2Simple's 2Design and Make within their Online Tools (soon to become part of the Purplemash revolution), and enjoy making various vehicles, you (or the children in your class) may have become frustrated when you've finished it, hold it in one hand and you 'accidentally' squash it out of shape.

On days like these

I've had a great afternoon today. The reason for that has been simple - I've taught the most enjoyable ICT lesson, ever, twice! - to two separate classes. And I've still got another class to teach it to before the end of the week.

Stylish 503!

A lovely 503 error message (service unavailable) from the BBC on their new beta website;

A letter to B&Q

I've written a letter to B&Q. It's not a nice letter, but it's a necessary letter. This is what the letter to a national DIY chainstore says.