In class with Microsoft Kodu
After a few discussions with our Subject Leader for ICT – Joe Santarcangelo (@santarc) I pursudaed him to look into using the wonderful Microsoft Kodu for our ICT lesson primarily aiming it at KS3 ICT Control modules.
Itching to get my Kodu project rolling, but not being able to use Kodu with our KS3 groups yet (they’re doing modelling with Excel up until mid December) I asked Joe could I hijack some of his Yr11s to get feedback from them on Kodu (and using them as technical guinea pigs to see how it runs on our network – you cant keep a good techie down!)
My first Teachmeet
Friday, November 4th 2011. 5pm. Bolton, Lancashire.
On a wet, cold and generally miserable autumn afternoon @john_howarth at arrived at my school to give me a lift to a local primary school. The trip wasn’t for an LA led INSET session, or LA meeting this was going to be my very 1st Teachmeet.
Microsoft’s 2019 Future Vision Montage: Envisioning the Future
I love any kind of ‘vision of the future’ videos. Total Minority Report kinda guesswork but, for me anyway, inspiring!
Ultimate Gadge – Swap Watch
I’m a regular watcher of Channel 5′s The Gadget Show and every week there is usually something that amazes me.
But, on the rare occasion, something makes me stop and think ‘wow’
The feature on the DYAL Swap Watch was just that kind of feature!
Heppel on the future of education…
I’ve just stumbled upon this old clip from a Channel 4 (or it could’ve been BCC2) program on the future of education…
Still fresh and pertinent today. Excellent stuff
Twitter, it’s all about the me me me….
I’ve been a user of Twitter for several months now. I follow around 100 people and around 160 people follow me. I’ve made nearly 900 tweets so I guess I’m still small fry but definitely not a newbie.
Apart from the recent buzz about Twitter and the related band wagon jumpers who now all want to tweet for no reason other than it’s currently fashionable to use Twitter – and it appears to be a current obsession with the mighty BBC – a rather worrying trend is rearing its ugly head.
7 Things
Having been tagged in the 7 Things meme by Mary Cooch I now have the pleasure in furnishing you with 7 Things you will almost certainly wont know about me.
1 As well as being an avid guitar player I am a collector of guitars. I currently have 37 guitars. My favourite and main guitar amongst my Fender Strats, Gibson Les Pauls and PRS’ is an unknown Stratocaster style guitar worth £115 nicknamed Chairman Mao – as it had the word ‘Mao’ written on it in black marker. I also name all my guitars.
S&M, blogs and the self publicist…
Apparently I don’t like blogs….
Because I don’t ‘see the point’ in the Edublog Awards or ‘The Eddies’ as they’re referred to I get wrongly accused of not liking blogging… laughable buffoonery don’t you think.
Therefore this, what you’re looking at now and the likes of this, this and this, which I contribute / have contributed to, must make me a kind of a kind of masochist.
S&M ICT? Could be a new genre, I guess. However, I’ll let others investigate that particular area.
Happy New Year
Ubiquity: user generated MashUps
Occasionally a tool comes along that could change the way we do stuff online. Most fail by either being too elegant and therefore offering not enough change or even a ‘wow factor’ to get end users to change their approach or they are over rich with features and tweakability to make them pretty much unusable – even though the value added service(s) they provide are actually quite useful.
The C# Challenge… the start of a journey
Very quick post, of an introductory nature….
I’ve been challenged, and I’ve duly accepted, to see if it is possible to gain a (basic) understanding of a programming language within a month.
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