I love good news especially when I know others (as well as myself) will benefit. This weekend I had two good pieces of news which I am really pleased to … Continue Reading →
Category Archives: A Level
How to create an effective consensus…or plan a really good history essay
Just before the end of the Christmas term, the Headmaster invited one of our current parents to run a development session with the senior leadership team. It was a … Continue Reading →
Check in – what have I been doing in the last two months?
I have been away from the blog and twitter for the last two months. What have I been doing? Work Being a senior leader in a school is always challenging … Continue Reading →
SCVNGR Reflections
I have been talking up the potential of SCVNGR since I first heard about it earlier this year as I thought it would provide a vehicle for games based learning … Continue Reading →
Travelling without maps (I)
‘We could roll up the map of the Cold War and travel without maps for a while’ E P Thompson on the possibility of social groups affecting the Cold War … Continue Reading →
Visible learning and mobile devices
You can tell I’m on holiday due to the number of blog posts written and today’s is something I have been turning over for a while. I intend to write, … Continue Reading →
2010 – The Year of the Monolith?
iPod Touch – 2010 style After talking and thinking about how I would use mobile devices in the History classroom with a variety of people on Twitter and at Ed … Continue Reading →
Mobile devices, Megatron and the History classroom
What I look like when homework is not handed in. Apparently. I have been thinking about using mobile devices in the classroom for a long time. Doug Belshaw and I … Continue Reading →