http://chickensaltash.edublogs.org "In a time of drastic change it is the learners that inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists" Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:06:41 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Keep an eye out on Tuesday for a feed on twitter #ITF09. This is the feed from Microsoft’s UK Innovative Teachers Forum in Birmingham. It will have many innovative teachers locked in a room twittering and bickering about the latest things in education. You can see what is going on by ... http://chickensaltash.edublogs.org/2009/11/30/would-you-call-yourself-an-innovative-teacher/ This once again appears to be a rising topical issue. I read a really interesting arcticle in the TES this week called Friend of Foe? Talking to a few people in education about the use of mobile phones in the classroom. Click on the link to read: http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6028637&navcode=94 It has also been ... http://chickensaltash.edublogs.org/2009/11/28/is-your-classroom-mobile-phone-free/ On Friday the 4th of December Javier Dril Bustamente will visit the students and teachers at Saltash.net Community School in Cornwall. It is part of his visit to Europe where he will answers questions from MP's in London and then talk at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen. You can hear ... http://chickensaltash.edublogs.org/2009/11/27/javier-talks-about-saving-the-rainforest/ As teachers at the so called ‘chalk face’ or these days the ‘smart board’ we continually strive to prepare our students with the knowledge, skills, attributes and life experiences that will make them effective life-long learners in the 21st century. But what if you have no technology as such, no ... http://chickensaltash.edublogs.org/2009/11/25/pisco-sours-ponchos-panpipes-but-no-broadband-or-wireless/ This is just a short post as I feel duty bound on behalf of teachers and students around the world to make a recommendation for the 2009 Edublogs awards. As you may know if you read my blog, I am relatively a blogging virgin (ok I am still trying to ... http://chickensaltash.edublogs.org/2009/11/25/the-edublog-awards-2009/ E-Technologies – Curriculum developments with QCDA Actually it isn't that boring! zzzzzzzzzzzz So I headed off to the train station before 6am to begin my 9 hour return journey to attend a meeting with the QCDA, as I tucked into my home made Sausage sarnie with HP sauce (ketchup is a no ... http://chickensaltash.edublogs.org/2009/11/05/this-is-a-really-boring-post-so-dont-read-it/ Well it isn’t a new game for the xbox it is a simple, free web 2.0 way of sharing ideas by recording your own audio type podcasts. I first came across it when I read through Nik Peachey’s Web 2.0 tools for teacher’s booklet which he produced a few months ... http://chickensaltash.edublogs.org/2009/11/01/voxopop-sounds-like-a-new-game-for-the-xbox/ This weekend I was extremely privileged and fortunate to be at the National Teaching Awards 2009 for a long weekend of celebrations. I wasn’t just hanging around for no reason but was up for an award because I had won the Silver Plato for the South West. So as a ... http://chickensaltash.edublogs.org/2009/10/29/the-educational-oscars/ We don’t need no education... Every time I heard someone mention Wallwisher without using it myself I seemed to have pink Floyd singing in my head. Wallwisher www.wallwisher.com is a great little web 2.0 tool principally for collaboration. You have a virtual wall where you can post little post it ... http://chickensaltash.edublogs.org/2009/10/27/just-another-brick-in-the-wall/ I am of course talking about the magic web 2.0 tool Photopeach – you can visit it and set up your own free account at http://www.photopeach.com/ I first heard about photopeach by looking at @raff31’s Year 4 blog. Mr Rafferty is a Year 4 teacher at Green Park school in ... http://chickensaltash.edublogs.org/2009/10/18/can-you-tell-what-it-is-yet/