So. I'm increasingly thinking about search. Search (as in using google, yahoo etc) is increasingly what students do when asked to do homework. I'm having small victories. I've been asking my students to do several things recently when doing project based activities (partially because I've had to leave so many classes to cover because of my new role in school as temporary HOD for ICT). One is that they should work out and record their initial keyword search terms before they approach the terminal.

So, I know it's been rather quiet round here.  Normal (by which I mean that well meant but infrequent) service is being resumed. Since the last time I posted I have run a seminar for the SSAT as an LP - see photgraph attached, taken on a HOD role for the ICT department, whilst a colleague has been on maternity leave, and been writing an assignmenf for a course with Warwick Uni.  Right, enough with the excuses.  

Regular readers will know that I was recently appointed as a Lead Practitioner by the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.  Lead Practitioners offer great value, amazingly practical and inspiring INSET under the SSAT Lead Practitioner Programme.

Just some of the fascinating things that I like to do on a saturday night...

Regular reader(s) will be glad to know that this site is secure and running A OK following this evening's updgrade to drupal 6.4!

Somebody is reading!  Ali from Rohampton sent a very nice comment, which I've only just picked up.

Short one today, just had root canal work :(.  Anyway, whilst drifting into a codine induced snooze I noted the following link.  I've heard lots of people talking about voicethread, but I've been quite sceptical about how it could work.  Of course, it's banned in the LEA WAN, but I think I might ask for it to be unblocked, after seeing the amazing application here:

Right, I've been meaning to post on this for ages. Jane Shuyska (at the beginning of the holidays, sorry I didn't read it before!) sent me a link to some research carried out by Sara Hennessy, Rosemary Deaney and Kenneth Ruthven of the University of Cambridge Faculty of Education.

This is easy, and I can see a huge range of applications.  In a recent lesson I taught using wiki (which in itself wasn’t totally successful) I made individual worksheets that contained; personalised instructions, a list of resources tailored to the personalised task of each students and login and password information.  Each student needed different instructions (depending on their topic).  Obviously they all needed differe

Last thursday Jane and I ran a third lesson with my year 9 'Zeldin' class.  This was a second go at using the wiki to study the links between events and factors behind the development of surgery in the 19th and 20th Centuries.