Encouraging and improving student talk with FlipGrid
Over the past 9 months I have been thinking a lot about ways in which I can encourage pupils to talk to each other, discuss topics and...
No whiteboard, no problem!
There is good evidence that effective dual coding (designing your explanations so that the same information is presented both verbally/in...
Reflections on Online Teaching
Like many of us I’m sure that your strategy for online learning has changed numerous times over the past 5 weeks. I wanted to take this...
Hopefully the students have learnt as much as I have in the last few weeks
Every morning I am woken up by my cat between 5 and 6 am, a time of her choosing, and whilst she cries for attention I am thinking about...
ICT to enhance formative assessment
The IB Visual arts syllabus has changed, rather than having a visiting examiner we now submit and moderate work digitally. To make the...
A simple but effective use for Google Docs in class
Google Docs is a very powerful suite of software, and there are many great uses in the classroom. The real power over the more...
There Is No Perfect Teacher (Just a Bunch of Great Ones)
I’ve taught at two schools in my career. The first, in California, had a dozen teachers in total. I adored my colleagues, but we each had...
Low Stakes Quizzes
ICTEvangelist has put together a post with a brief introduction to five tools that teachers can use to administer low stakes quizzes in...
3 Classroom Tips for Stronger Digital Learning
More and more classrooms are gaining access to digital technology. And that’s a good thing. In a world that is increasingly reliant on...
Websites for Classroom Use
In this post I am going to give a very brief overview of some websites that can be useful in the classroom. They all lend themselves very...