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Sir Michael Wilshaw, the Chief Inspector of Schools at Ofsted, recently suggested teachers needed to work past 3pm to earn any kind of promotion. Alongside this he also told his Ofsted inspectors that schools should be considered for a lower…
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Learning Through Projects – PBL,…PBL, DT, UbD?!
To clarify, the title of the blog post indicates a variety of pedagogy related to learning in some way by using projects. These could be Project-based Learning (PBL), Problem-based Learning (…PBL), Design Thinking (DT) and Understanding by Design (UbD) to name…
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Using Bambuser in the Classroom
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…
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Creating and Embedding a Customisable Progress Tracker
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…
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Producing good ideas
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…
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Taking students beyond our e-learning boundaries
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…
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Rickypedia – our school’s VLE.
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!
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Google Apps for Education; Using Google Docs
It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything. New starts to the year are hectic; particularly so when your school wants to become an Academy and when there is all the financial chaos of the new government. Anyway… I love…
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Where do you go for your educational tools?
There is such a wealth of educational resources out there; an overwhelmingly large amount. I was gathering my thoughts on how I gather information about exciting resources, Web 2.0 tools and suchlike. Then I began to consider how to get…
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Instant feedback and enhanced learning through live video and photography
I am going to give a specific example of an activity I completed today, but I feel live video can be greatly beneficial in a number of subjects which I’ll briefly outline later in the post. Today with my Year…
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