Have you ever tried to show someone how to do something easy? Of course you have, you do it all the time without even thinking about it especially if you have kids. But what happens if you have 1000 people you need to show, who all have a different starting point, who all demand something […]
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Staff E-learning Newsletter – Issue 2
Below is our latest staff e-learning newsletter that was supposed to get sent out in the last week of term but got caught in the chaos of the snow! It’s been slightly edited for privacy reasons. ___________________________________________________________ Here’s what in this newsletter 1. Reminder of how to get on the VLE 2. It’s Google Time […]
VLE Staff Training
In the world of Educational ICT money is often spent at hardware and software without thinking about training and time. It doesn’t matter how amazing technology is or what change it can facilitate, if teachers don’t understand how to use it or don’t have time to use it it won’t get used! There are many […]
Teachmeet 09 at BETT
Another year another BETT another Teachmeet As Lisa Stevens said in her teachmeet talk it’s amazing how much you can learn in a year. Last year at Teachmeet the only person I vaguely knew was Drew Buddie. He introduced me to a couple of people and a few weeks later when we met again he […]
Staff Training and Staff E-learning Club
One of the major tasks I will have this year implementing our new VLE is to train staff. To get staff on board I will need as many staff on my side as possible and one idea I had was to run a separate group of teachers not just learning to use the VLE but […]
Student e-council meeting part 2
I previously wrote about our student e-council meeting held last term. The aim of this was to get students opinions and ideas on how technology should be used in school and what features they would like. This year I want to evolve the role of this group to actually taking on a hands on role […]