I’ve spoken before about my love of gifs (Gifs in Education – Why they work). The immediacy, brevity and repetition of them make them perfect
Author: Joel Speranza
How to Teach Coding Like a Granny
The digital technologies curriculum is here and everyone is trying to figure out how to teach the thing. Particularly the coding bit, that’s the steepest
How to Use Blockposters – Tech Tip Tuesday
Sometimes you want to put something up on your wall but a simple A3 poster just won’t do it. You need something large. Maybe something
Video Classroom Observations – Awesome
I’ve written about classroom observations before. If you haven’t already read it, you might want to check it out here. Better Classroom Observations: How to break
How to use Timeline JS – Tech Tip Tuesday
In any subject sometimes you just need to talk history. What better way to do it than to have your students create a timeline. We’re
My Favourite Bloggers Favourite Blog Posts
Teaching is often a very private existence. It’s difficult to find out what others are doing in their classrooms or what other teachers think. But
How to Use Canva – Tech Tip Tuesday
Another Tech Tip Tuesday and this time it’s all about student creation with the awesome canva.com Canva is a super simple way for students to
Engaging Staff Meetings: Technology Speed-Dating
How do you hold an engaging, informative and worthwhile staff meeting for 130 staff? This was the question I had to ask myself when the
How to Use PlayPosit – Tech Tip Tuesday
Turning passive video watching into an interactive and engaging learning experience? That’s Playposit. Keep reading for your chance to win a free one year subscription
I heart Blog: How blogging changed my practice
I have now been blogging for the whole of 2016, making this my most successful New Year’s Resolution of all time. This is my 50th
How To Use New Google Forms Quiz – Tech Tip Tuesday
Google Forms was originally designed as a way to survey people or gather information. It wasn’t intended to be used as means of formative or summative
Teach Teachers to Code and Watch What Happens Next
Do we need specialist teachers to teach coding and computational thinking? Or can we trust our current teachers to handle the new digital technology curriculum?
