Author Archives: P Wright

Cheap Video Camera

Less of a blog entry and more of an open-ended question and a passing on of an opportunity really. I saw this camera on my daily Group-On digest and thought that whilst it wouldn’t take the place of a now … Continue reading

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Podcast, or not?

At the risk of upsetting some folk and risking a host of ‘does it really matter?’ replies, I think we’re not doing our pupils justice by geting our technical vocabulary wrong. For example, asking pupils to create ‘A PowerPoint’. Wrong! … Continue reading

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QR Codes

Think there’s no place for them in the classroom? Watch this then consider the ‘adopt, adapt, create’ model. 40_ways_to_use_QR_codes_for_teaching View more presentations from KOSHA

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Mobile technologies help learning

I spotted this article today and whilst it refers to ipods and ipads, I suspect we should assume the findings apply to Android-based tablets and Smartphones. Nothing against Apple’s products you understand as I’m giving serious thought to purchasing an … Continue reading

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Give as well as take

Like most users of the internet, I think I must take about 50 times more than I give back. Most of this is browsing, some listening to music- legally! and podcasts, particularly Mark Kermode’s film reviews. All well and good, … Continue reading

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World Population

7 billion people and you: What’s your number? The world’s population is expected to hit seven billion in the next few weeks. After growing very slowly for most of human history, the number of people on Earth has more than … Continue reading

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5 Skills

5 skills a 21st Century teacher should have. Click here.

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Hull Fair and The Cloud

The Cloud in this case being the place where your work is stored and not the one that brought the midweek deluge. I’ve spent some time over the past fortnight working alongside the Traveller Education service in their temporary school … Continue reading

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Blogs and ePortfolios

Last week I spent a day and a half at Marfleet Primary with a Y5/6 class and the Deputy Headteacher. The purpose of the visit was to introduce blogs to the pupils and staff with a view to this having … Continue reading

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New Technologies

6 technologies to change the face of education? I bumped into this article recently and like many other, it got me thinking. Elsewhere in this blog (June)  are my thoughts on Cloud Computing- something I see positives in for schools- … Continue reading

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