This is the first in a series of four posts about my experiences of using Google docs with my Year 10 Media Studies students, over the course of the last academic year. Each post will cover a specific topic: Signing Up Collaboration Assessment What’s Next? Part 1: Signing Up (or a lesson in the drawbacks [...]
Effective teaching and learning is about being present; being in the moment. Too often I am aware of teachers who are not being in the moment. When you are teaching please don’t: Sit at your desk for the entire lesson Check your email Try to book your next holiday Plan your next lesson Play [...]
This is a recording of a blog post published earlier this month. You can read the original post here where you will find all of the links to people, books and concepts that I mention in the recording. You can find all of my Boos here. And you can subscribe to my Boos direct via [...]
I finished reading Seth Godin’s Linchpin a few weeks ago and while I found it to be an interesting read, the main thesis of the text was nothing I didn’t already practise. I strive every day to “ship” and “give gifts” and I can’t evangelise enough on how important both of these concepts are as a [...]
I had planned to blog about my use of Google Docs this past week. With it being half term, I certainly had the time to do so, but instead, I ended up using much of my time improving the design and functionality of my blog. Here is a summary of the changes that I have [...]
