The better you know your students, the more progress you make.  That is why keeping an up to date and detailed markbook is so important. The resources below show how I have made a markbook in Excel and the many ways in which I can use it in my teaching. The following questions are raised:
Why do you […]

For a food loving person like myself a web tool called del.cio.us was too good an opportunity to miss!
Del.icio.us is a must have web tool called a social bookmarker. It radically changes the way you browse the web and share good links with other users.
Setting up a free account is very straight forward, but […]

I’ve just read Aaron Nelson’s post, on Going Bedouin.  It addresses the issues of a classroom without walls.  I’m particularly interested in the idea that the role of the teacher will have to change.  We will no longer be the world authority in our own classroom on any particular issue.  Instead, our role will be […]

After much nagging by my students, I’ve created a 6 lesson unit on how to create digital videos. My Y9 classes did the unit as a bit of light relief after the QCA online test!
To give the students some inspiration for their video I asked them to look for interesting articles on the BBC […]

teach-ICT.com is a brilliant website packed with free teaching and revision material.
The KS3 section has the DfES sample units, as well as adapted schemes of work made by a variety of teachers. It also have very useful links to other sites such as webcams around the world for unit 8.1 .The best part of […]

I have been asked by Norfolk and Suffolk GTP to create an ICT audit for their new trainees.  The main purpose of the audit is to find out what level of ICT competence each trainee has.  It will also help the trainees to identify useful skills that they should try to pick up during the […]