Some of you will know that I am quite the Apple fanboy. I currently own a MacBook Air, MacBook Pro (my second one) and an iPod touch. Having blogged twice about the apps I have installed on the iPod (during the early days of this blog), I felt it was time to confess to the [...]
[Cross-posted from my Posterous blog] This is my preferred way of using Twitter for Mac. Firstly, click on the stream you wish to view, e.g.: @replies, a list you have created or a hashtag you wish to follow. Then click Shift+Cmd+T and it will open that stream in a separate window. Do this for each [...]
One way that I have sought to enrich the experience of my students is to give them opportunities to learn from others rather than just myself. To them I am the expert but in many facets of what I teach, particularly the practical elements, I am only a few steps further on than they are; [...]
This post is a response to the article: ‘My pledge to end the shocking blight of illiteracy‘, written by Michael Gove, published in the London Evening Standard on Friday 10th June 2011. For Michael Gove to recognise that there is a problem with literacy in the UK is pleasing yet also inane, in that anyone [...]
The latest Purpos/ed campaign is called #purposedfutured. In getting involved we were asked to use AudioBoo to interview a person about the future of education, using the following two questions: A) How should we educate people in the future? B) What do we need to be doing now to enable that? Here is my interview [...]
