Posted in Filtering on Nov 11th, 2008 No Comments »
Many thanks to all those who commented on my rant last month with regards to Internet filtering etc within school, I know it’s something a lot of us come up against each and every day.
I thought I’d quickly update those who were interested on my progress. I put together a list of exemplars of Teaching [...]
Posted in 9X1, Ed Technology on Oct 20th, 2008 15 Comments »
As I have just ranted about on Tom Barrett’s blog post about using Google Docs for online reporting to parents, I am becoming increasingly frustrated with trying to use the Internet both myself and with pupils at school. It is to all intents and purposes blocked and Web 2.0 seems to be considered a security [...]
Posted in News, Web Literacy on Aug 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
So says the title of another BBC article on the cyber-bullying YouTube problem.
This worries and saddens me as I can see the quick result of this will be even more aggressive and restrictive censoring of the internet by school network managers. There is so much excellent material available on YouTube and other similar sites [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on Jul 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
Following on from my previous post about GapMinder, Hans Rosling has made another inspiring talk at a TED conference.
His use of data continues to inspire me and pushes my thoughts on using this software in the classroom. With the abolition of data handling coursework next year more time will be freed up to look [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on Jun 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
At the end of an ordinary Year 9 lesson on scatter graphs I had a flash of inspiration and remembered the fantastic Gapminder World tool courtesy of Google and Gapminder.
For the uninitiated this is a dynamic graphing package populated with a range of data about countries covering the last 30 years. You choose [...]
