Outdoor Education...teaching in nature

Here's a blogpost from Wesley Fryer's Moving at the Speed of Creativity, a blog which I'd recommend you look at.  It affirms the kind of learning which goes on at residential visits and through the International award.

Lots of good ideas here.

Blog Tips for School

For student blogging tips...from a student go here...

For poetic tips for a primary teacher blogger audience, go here.


All of these links are thanks to Edublogger's recent blogging tips competition.

Anne Frank

You tube now has the only known video of Anne Frank. Her neighbours were filming their wedding and there was Anne, at the window sill of the very house she lived in.

Thanks to Larry Ferlazzo and Colin Brown for the tip.

Is the Internet melting our brains?

For an interesting article which challenges the assertion that the internet is a bad thing, go to Vincent Rossmeier's write up of an interview with Dennis Baron, author of A better Pencil.

Online networking

Here's a link to an interesting looking article about online networking.

It was done in 2007 so is maybe a bit dated in this swiftly moving digital age.

Lesson Observation

One way to get great teaching ideas is to observe colleagues teaching. We are having lots of informal drop-ins at school this term where members of the management team come along and sit in, without an agenda, and sometimes help out with what we are doing. This is followed up by a brief email.

This form is a way of sharing good practice. If you go to watch another teacher's lesson informally, and you see some great ideas then please share!

Please add details of lessons which you have seen.

Thankyou for your feedback.

Smartboard tips

Here's the link to a set of tips for smartboard use.

Found this at Mr C's blog.