Posted in Ed Technology, News on Mar 11th, 2008 No Comments »
The £60m 2-year DCSF project has kicked off at our school. For the uninitiated this is a government funded scheme to put laptops into some of the most disadvantaged homes in the country.
To quote:
Computers for Pupils
Computers for Pupils is a £60 million, two-year programme (2006–2008) aimed at helping some of the most disadvantaged secondary school […]
Posted in Ed Technology on Mar 8th, 2008 3 Comments »
eeePCs come pre-installed with the wonderful Firefox browser. The 7-inch screen means that screen real-estate is at a premium so I have listed below some Firefox add-ons that I recommend.
Get rid of those pesky adverts:
Adblock Plus - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1865
Adblock Updater - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1136
Shrink the menus:
Compact Menus 2 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4550
Hide all the menus and toolbars:
Fullerscreen - […]
Posted in Ed Technology on Mar 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Well my eeePCs have finally arrived at school and I have to say I’m more than impressed. They may be diminutive in stature but they are feature packed and surprisingly well made for the price (ours were roughly £170 each).
Thanks to Ewan Macintosh for the image.
So yes, the screen and trackpad are a tad on […]
Posted in Ed Technology on Mar 8th, 2008 No Comments »
I have introduced a fantastic resource into both of my recent schools over the last 2 years. It continues to impress me to this day and it’s about time I wrote a glowing review of it!
MyMaths.co.uk has been around for a couple of years now and continues to grow. When I originally bought […]
Posted in Ed Technology, News, School Blog on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
DownloadSquad reports that Google has finally released it’s new version of Jotspot as the rebranded and updated Google Sites, all part of the Google Apps suite. More to come when I’ve had a play around with it. could be a real contender for the educational wiki crown which currently sits with the excellent Wikispaces in […]
Posted in Ed Technology, News, School Blog on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
DownloadSquad reports that Google has finally released it’s new version of Jotspot as the rebranded and updated Google Sites, all part of the Google Apps suite. More to come when I’ve had a play around with it. could be a real contender for the educational wiki crown which currently sits with the excellent […]
Posted in Ed Technology on Feb 19th, 2008 1 Comment »
I came across the excellent Scratch programming tool via an interesting discussion on Classroom2.0.
I’m planning on investigating it a little more in the near future, there are a wealth of mathematical possibilities for it from algebra, logic, geometry, probability etc etc etc. However I’ve been thinking of a quick way in to it for my […]
Posted in Ed Technology, News on Feb 11th, 2008 1 Comment »
The Guardian has an article today discussing the rapid adoption of eeePCs in schools, apparently with Ministerial support.
I’m still impatiently waiting for my 6 to arrive, they won’t be ordered until the school’s trial of Wi-Fi is underway and as with all things in school that is taking longer than expected
Jonesieboy’s trials have […]
Posted in Ed Technology on Jan 26th, 2008 2 Comments »
Well I’m very excited, in a bid to trial wifi in our school, and spend some of our remaining budget I will be getting at least 6 new eeePCs next week. Initially they will be mainly for web access to the excellent MyMaths and other resources, but I’m sure they will become an […]
Posted in Ed Technology, Me! on Jul 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Having settled in at my new school, plans are afoot…
…it looks like I should be taking a role in expanding the use of ICT across the curriculum. I’m going to do this in conjunction with a member of the IT teaching department. I plan to focus on collecting together good practice that already takes place […]
