Archive for the ‘blognews’ Category
Human Rights for Children
So, I had this idea. If you read this blog at all regularly, you’ll know that I consider @alomshaha a friend. As well as writing, making films and teaching science, he should be credited with getting me on to Twitter two years ago. Thank him later. Right now, I’ve something more important for you to […]
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Tags: British Humanist Association, twitter
A Public Portfolio
Happy half-term to all my colleagues, near and far. Or if you’re back at work this week, I’ll try not to taunt you too much. But I’m off; reading lots of books, taking time over breakfast, playing with kids and kittens… oh, and blogging. About work. There’s something wrong with this picture. Anyway. I’ve been […]
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Tags: CPD, Education, Google, teaching
Summer jobs list review
Welcome back! Yes, I know we’ve been back a week or so. I’ve been kind of busy with all that September stuff; introductions, seating plans, lab rules, procedures, blowing stuff up and so on. Which means my blog has been slightly neglected. You’ve probably enjoyed the peace and quiet, but here I am to spoil […]
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Tags: CPD, Guardian Teacher Network
Compare and Contrast
I’d just like to contrast two parts of the speech that Gove made (taken from the online document, not sure how closely he stuck to the script) at the Spectator Conference. I promise, after this I’m sticking to pedagogy for a bit, I’ve had enough of politics. Michael Gove faced criticism from an unexpected source […]
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Tags: academies, gove, statistics
Getting Nominated (the easy bit)
Several posts should be arriving soon, including a summary of the recent #SciTeachJC, a quick guide to quick use of the 5/7Es when writing a lesson plan or a scheme of work, and ‘my fortnight on twitter’. This is a really quick one and is basically about me being selfish. This site has been nominated […]
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Tags: award, blogging
Life Online
I’m finding it harder and harder to keep track of things online. At the time of writing/typing, I’m running six email accounts, two blogs (this one and the ‘in-progress’ studenttoolkit.co.uk, two twitter accounts and one facebook page. That’s crazy. To try and keep myself organised, I’m experimenting with several tools. The hard bit is making […]
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Tags: Blog, Evernote, Social Networking, twitter
Bah Humbug
Even in my secret identity as mild-mannered reporter teacher I’m not a huge Christmas fan. I mean, I understand the ideas and all, both those based around the solstice and the way the traditions have been pinched more recently by the Christians, but I just don’t like it much. (For those of a Christian tradition, […]
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Tags: Christmas, Santa Claus
It was probably from Alom Shaha that I first ‘heard’ the term virtual staffroom to encompass the ways in which Twitter and blogging can help teachers improve their professional practice. I’m not the only person who likes the concept, and there’s some excellent discussion elsewhere about the benefits it can offer. I’ve mentioned some of […]
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Tags: Alom Shaha, Blog, blogging, teaching, twitter, Wordpress
Being a #teacherontwitter
This will be a very quick post (as it’s late and I’m hungry) inspired by this article in the San Francisco Chronicle. It’s occured to me before that although there are guidelines for teachers on Facebook, there’s not the same kind of emphasis on Twitter. Here, then, are the rules I follow when I tweet […]
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Tags: Follower, Online Communities, Student, twitter
The Dog Ate My Blogpost
It’s been a busy week… umm, month. I was ill. I had lots of other things to do. All true. But the end result is still it’s been more than a month since I posted, which is pretty shocking. I suspect colleagues will appreciate my situation when I mention module exams, reports, parents’ evenings and […]
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