VLE’s as a ‘social learning space’

“A lesson or idea I would like to share or take away from this is how a VLE even for the youngest of students need not be a web based flash drive or delivery platform. A way of transferring, accessing, storing or sharing work that teachers make for children and colleagues to use at school. [...]

Sir Jim’s Leeks

Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake-up • New curriculum will give teachers more freedom • Second world war and Victoria not compulsory Polly Curtis – Guardian 25/03/09 Study Twitter? Study Blogs? They are just tools to engage and stimulate. For many they are already, just an every day, common place thing. [...]

Digital Starters

A brilliant post from Simon Mills about using Wallace & Gromit videos as digital starters for explaining processes. The Tellyscope The Snoozatron There is an ongoing list of ‘Digital Starters’ or Multimodal Starting Points which can be found on our school site – E-Learning – English – Film

“satisfactory” = “unsatisfactory”

Well put article in the Guardian this morning explains ‘Ofsted Newspeak’ Just trying to keep the inspectors satisfied It’s now a mark of dishonour to be labelled a ‘satisfactory’ teacher, says Phil Beadle Guardian 24/03/2009 “No more. What should we read into the change to the bald four grades currently in use, where lessons are [...]