The Masterplan

I have finally started one of my classes blogging. I decided to use a wiki from the excellent Wikispaces for this purpose rather than a blog. I took inspiration from Kristian Still’s excellent wiki at his previous school (which seems to have dissapeared now Kristian has moved schools?). I also made the […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Well tomorrow is the first day at my new school and I’m really looking forward to it.
Things have been a little quiet on the blogging front as the last term wound up and a well earned rest was had over Easter.
Hopefully once settled in my new school I will throw myself back into it.  The […]

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I was reading an interesting article in the Observer this morning about homework not working.
Specific reference is made to a book called ‘The Homework Myth‘ by Alfie Kohn. This is the first I have heard of this book but to quote from the Observer:
“The study, by American academic Alfie Kohn, has sparked a huge […]

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Well our first 2 weeks of blogging for school have been very interesting. We seem to have developed a growing core of pupils who check the blog regularly. On a personal note the little snippets of recognition from other teachers around the web have been very welcome. In fact, I guess, I […]

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