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The Classroom Agenda App on iPad

May 27th, 2010 by admin

Seth Godin recently wrote a blogpost which was an open pitch really for someone to build an app that would make presentation no-linear, explaining he felt it would be the App to allow the Ipad market to flood. More recently, he asked for an App that ran a meeting, like a universal Agenda.

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Snow – When the school is more than the building

January 13th, 2010 by admin

It has been interesting to see all the different ways innovative teachers have operated in the past few days due to school closures and snow. Services such as Twitter have come into their own as crowdsources devices for ideas ad reflections, and this post highlights some that I found very useful.

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Aspiration in the classroom – what is normality?

November 21st, 2009 by admin

I have a sofa in the corner of my classroom. It looks very comfortable but every so slightly out of place. It is used to hear children read, and also to read to children from. I have a colleague who can’t stand it, but it is one thing in my classroom I won’t concede. In [...]

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Innovation versus Risk

October 25th, 2009 by admin

There have been many articles in the UK press covering the postal strike from the postie’s point of view, and one thing aspect they re protesting against is excessive innovation by the management – something that is conversely quite rare in the education sector. The difficulty with innovation is that has an element of ‘cost’ [...]

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