This month I am leading a workshop at the British Council National Conference and a presentation for a group of schools involved in a QCA pilot project.  The theme of my talk is how to bring the real world into the classroom using ICT.  Click on the links to view my Keep IT Real presentation, Wombat’s video and Global […]

How can we make training better?
This question kept wandering through my head whilst attending a conference that could have been entitled ‘Death by PowerPoint’. The best part of the day was lunch. The chocolate gâteau was very good and so was the conversation around the table. It was an invaluable opportunity to meet other practitioners, […]

What is RSS?
One of the main advantages of a blog is that you can receive updates whenever something new is added.
In order to do this you need a rss feed (Really Simple Syndication). The rss feed for the communICTy blog is http://www.learnblog.net/ict/feed/ .
How do I find a rss feed?
Most websites with a rss feed will […]

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 […]