A brief update to publicise a book that I have contributed to and edited by Professor Terry Hadyn of UEA. Using New Technologies to Enhance Teaching and Learning in History (Routledge) is … Continue Reading →
Category Archives: GCSE
Conference Update #1
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 →
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 →
Breaking cover…
Now that I am on my Easter break, I have a chance to catch up with everything I was supposed to have done during term time. One thing that I … Continue Reading →
Comic Life and changing life in Germany 1933-1939: an update.
Today was the day students used the Regional Training Centre MacBooks and Comic Life to create the display/revision guides for changing life in Nazi Germany. Overall, I was pleased with … Continue Reading →
Comic Life and changing life in Germany 1933-1939
We have almost come to the end of the first unit of the new GCSE and I want to help the students revise some of the topic and create a … Continue Reading →
It is all happening…
Just a quick update before a longer post later on this week… On the Hans J Massaquoi wiki project, I started teaching women in Nazi Germany this week and used … 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 →