Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category
Automatically send an Email when I Tweet
As part of a whole school experiment to increase the awareness of literacy, I’ve been Tweeting a new word everyday. The idea being to enhance the word power of students ...
Going paperless – buy a duplex scanner
As I gear up to starting my two year secondment for the Welsh Assembly as the “secondary content advisor” for their innovative “All Wales” #HWB initiative, I realise that I ...
Windows 8 Email – the app that made it worth it!
I’ve blogged before about not being an Apple fanboi, and being rather partial to all things Microsoft (driven by the fact that I am one of the few geeks that ...
Making a mobile web site – setting data free
As a teacher I’ve been fascinated with the world of mobile apps and web sites since the first days of the AppStore. The idea that a (humble) teacher could take ...
The educational technology “F-word”
Catching up on my reading I came across a talk from Michael Trucano at World Bank via Educa-Berlin), who talks passionately about the pitfalls of implementing a technology roll out in schools.
In ...
Windows 8 – An OS too far?
I’m not a Windows fanboi, and I dont have shares in Microsoft. But since I paid for an upgrade to DOS 4.01 on 3.5 inch floppy disc (better memory management ...
Falling in love with Excel (again) – BTEC ICT
Friday is BTEC L2 ICT and today we will mostly be using Excel to create custom functions.
As a Science teacher we use Excel to process data and product graphs – ...
Collaborating for a better KS3 SOW (Science)
I love the things that Twitter throws up to inspire and challenge.
Off and on for the past few years I’ve wanted to collaboratively work on a scheme of work and associated ...
Blocking mobile phone access to the Internet – OpenDNS
My son has always been somewhat of an “early adopter” of technology - and I loathe the term, but he’s a candidate for “digital native”. For those who know me, the incident ...
We are all teachers of ICT not just literacy / numeracy
I seem to be thinking about a posts recently that end up with more than one part — odd how blogging develops.
At the start of this year, I was asked ...
Advanced PowerPoint – Removing all animations from a presentation
Until recently I was not a huge fan of PowerPoint in the classroom. Normally I would be found bemoaning my preference to pause and take tangential journeys to respond to ...
Gamification of my classes?
Watch this video mash up – see how many games you can name. Do you remember how old you where when you played them, where you where or even ...
Statistically overclocking an android phone
I keep coming back to looking for opportunities to teach experimental design in a different manner than “one variable at a time.” Today’s example is overclocking an android phone.
Once you ...
Wireless Visualiser – DroidCam
As a birthday treat (did I mention it was my 40th?) I bought myself an Android Phone – nothing special, a ZTE Skate. Why Android, not an i-something? – In ...
Streaming one class into another
I tried something that I’ve wanted to do for a while now – setting up a camera in one class and streaming the video / audio into another – in ...
Repurposing old laptops
Back in the day (1996-2004) we used an electronic registering system called “Bromcom”. It was supposed to streamline registering all classes and to help us raise attendance. (see this from ...
Undertenminutes.com
It’s amazing what little Tweets can do to your thought process.
I came across UnderTenMinutes.com from Ian Addison (@ianaddison) whilst browsing through the ever growing back catalogue of Tweets I seem ...
Simple AM Transmitter
Inspired by various web wanderings a couple of year back, I built a sound modulated laser, for sending audio signals over a long distance.
Recently, I came across a new article ...
Using an optical mouse as a data logger
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Logitech B110 Optical USB Mouse (Accessory)
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Make your own visualiser – change the way you teach
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TeckNet® C016 USB HD Webcam, 5 MegaPixel, 5G Lens, USB Microphone & 6 LED (Electronics)
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