There’s been a flurry of excellent posts by Ewan McIntosh about learning, over the past few days, filled with interesting questions about how the read/write web enables learning, and (I think) by extension, autonomous learning. There are autonomous learners in school already - guitar players, programmers, dancers, illustrators, and other kids who have a keen […]

Moving house on Monday so will be without Internet for a bit. Or so I thought till I broke my old mobile, and upgraded to a wee MDA Vario. Still working it out, hence no pictures etc. A fair few other bloggers have praised these wee devices (though mainly the better Vario II) - maybe […]

You’ve probably seen all this before, but I had the kids try out this when talking about search engines - pretty nice I think!
Kartoo - visual search engine
And for hours of fun:
Ms. Dewey - Microsoft’s avatar search engine. Kind of rubbish, but fun to show the kids (maybe not a class of 3rd year boys, […]

I love seeing what other people are doing with free web tools - there’s a lot of free tools out there empowering teachers and students to make great stuff. I’m always still drawn to embracing the geek in me and programming my own tools for use in the class. I don’t actually have the […]

Just a quick live example of Moodle in action - collaboratively building a glossary of terms about a unit of work - I hand out flash cards with a term, pupils use their knowledge, the web and their notes to find definitions.
 Moodle Glossary Collaboration
 The terms you’ll find there at the moment were done by students working […]

I’m going to set up a site offering installed Moodle sites to any teacher or school in Scotland that needs it.
The thing about that is that if you want to make a point, you cannot rely on just arguing in favour of what you think is right, what you can do is create the […]

That’s torn it… I went and broke my RSS feeds for here, so any of you fine folk who decided to subscribe - sorry, it wouldn’t have worked! Feel free to refresh/try again with the unbroken script.
Imagine the embarrassment of having to ask in the wordpress irc channel for help with the address “geekyteach.computingteacher.co.uk”

I was talking about a flickr interface before - basically what it does it allow you to make your own collection of images from flickr (you or kids can do this). Another program then lets you use these in nice ways (this is still to come). If you fancy the search interface, you can test […]

While I’ve read a few things here and there about Moodle which describe the software (and other VLEs like it) as “traditional” (i.e. approaching defunct), I’d have to argue in favour of a wee bit of Moodle. Some of the things it can do are incredibly helpful for creating resources, and the software is very […]

I’ve moved my blog over to my own server. I’m a control freak so I’m happier having it to hack at!
Using WordPress with a nice new theme. I can do some nice customisation of it, and it’s part of my bigger website (computingteacher.co.uk). If you fancy, please add my feed to your lists - in […]