I’ve posted previously about the blogging project that I am undertaking as part of the TTP at the Haringey CLC. I am piloting the project with a single child – known as ‘D’. His blog is now up and running - although I have encountered several challenges.
D’s literacy is low. Although he is verbally able, he [...]
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I have just watched this video of Michael Wesch’s fascinating presentation to the Library of Congress. He is the man behind The Machine is Us/ing Us (a YouTube video about Web 2.0 with 7 million viewings) and Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University. It’s nearly an hour long – but well worth watching. [...]
We’ve had some child-protection issues at school lately involving social networking sites and I have been addressing e-Safety issues in class and assemblies. There are ongoing issues as to what sites to filter and whether online games should be permitted (Runescape is the current favourite amoungst the secondary cohort).
This film gave me food for thought [...]
I ran the text from our newsletter through wordle. It’s fantastic – and quite beautiful! I must show this to our literacy coordinator! I can see lots of applications in the classroom…
*EDIT* I just ran our recent OFSTED Report through Wordle – it’s so interesting!
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fannett.me.uk%2F2008%2F07%2F14%2Fnewsletter-wordled%2F’;
addthis_title [...]
I had a good day at the SENJIT conference yesterday. There were some interesting speakers – including the inspiring Wiltshire special school head and Mac-nut Sean O’Sullivan, and the enthusiastic Jocelyn Chappel (ICT teacher and open-source enthusiast).
There was much discussion over the BSF programme and the share that SEN gets of the £4.5bn IT spending. [...]
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