Cup of Teaching

Year: 2011

  • Using Bambuser in the Classroom

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    Drew Thomson-Jones
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    For those of you that don’t know, Bambuser (www.bambuser.com) is a fantastic resource that allows live streaming of video from a mobile device to a weblink associated with your own account. My account is here and stores all of my videos – some of which are public, some private. It’s available to use on Android, iPhone/iPad/iPod…

  • Creating and Embedding a Customisable Progress Tracker

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    Drew Thomson-Jones
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    I think it’s worth talking about this on an educational blog, because aside from using a progress tracker as a fundraising tracker it has plenty of uses within education for tracking progress in projects, and other goal tracking for staff or students. A colleague asked if I would be able to assist in getting a progress…

  • Producing good ideas

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    Drew Thomson-Jones
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    Having a couple of hours to myself this morning, I was essentially lazing around and I had a little look at Twitter to catch up on some recent posts. I stumbled upon Ewan McIntosh‘s (http://edu.blogs.com/) tweet asking his followers for any good ideas of TED / TEDx talks questioning what we mean about ‘good’ (and ‘mistake’,…

  • Taking students beyond our e-learning boundaries

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    Drew Thomson-Jones
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    One thing I love about teaching Key Stage 3 Science is the flexibility in the curriculum – anyone who claims that there is a lack of flexibility is, simply, wrong (an argument for another day). As long as you cover the right stuff – ish – throughout a year, everything will be okay. My Year 9…

  • Rickypedia – our school’s VLE.

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    Drew Thomson-Jones
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    I thought I’d share a Prezi I’ve made to present to the School Governing Body about how our school’s VLE is going. VLE: the present and the future on Prezi Enjoy!