As a teacher I get a lot of emails which are for “The teachers of….” but most of the time I don’t actually teach this student. The person sending the email is sending to the entire staff email list to Read More …
If, like me you have multiple Google Accounts and other files elsewhere – Meta (still in Beta) – looks like a really useful tool – it links to multiple accounts (in my case a few different Google Accounts and Dropbox, Read More …
When it comes to one off events (such as Open Evening) I use Guidebook to build a mobile app to support the event. The free account gives access to most of the features and enables you to have up to Read More …
We use ClickView across the school to stream videos from our online library – for those who have not seen it ClickView is an online video platform, in our case containing our 1,600+ videos, plus access to another 11,000+ in Read More …
This year we have started running a series of staff training workshops – where staff can select which session to attend each training week. Each session is limited to ten members of staff in any one slot. We needed a Read More …
If you use a lot of Google Services (we have GMail and Drive across the school) – this Chrome Extension is useful – especially since Google removed the top menubar. There are a load of these around, but this one Read More …
More of an advert – than a Blog Post – but I am helping to organise a Pastoral TeachMeet (possibly the first ever Teach Meet with a Pastoral Theme!) – Wednesday 9th October 2013 – 6:00pm to 8:00pm at The Streetly Read More …
A very short post – about Todays Meet – allows you to open a Backchannel to a lesson or training session. Students can leave messages, feedback or ask questions. You create a room and the students or participants don’t need Read More …
Came across Onvert recently – which allows you to create augmented reality for free from a QR Code. Students download the Onvert App for free from the Apple Store or Android Google Play and then scan the QR Code. Whenever they scan the Read More …
With Skype and FaceTime now common – it seemed natural to try to add live online lessons to our VLE. At first I tried a FaceTime from the Year 12 Geography Fieldwork into a Year 9 lesson, standing in a Read More …
When it came to Parents Evening the booking system involved students speaking to each of their teachers and booking 5 minute appointments with them. They wrote this down on a pink sheet of paper which they handed to their parents Read More …