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Re: The Computing Curriculum

Jo Badge — Sun, 27 Apr 2014 13:36:58 -0000

Thank you for an absolutely brilliant resource. Sharing under the CC license is exemplary practice and demonstrates that you practice what you will be teaching and what children will learn with such a well rounded curriculum. As a new ICT subject lead, this will be an invaluable resource for me to start thinking about our own curriculum.

Re: 12 ways teachers are using social media in the classroom

Jo Badge — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 22:12:08 -0000

In terms of the primary classroom I would add using Quadblogging and 100 word challenges to connect with a wider audience and most importantly provide a source of comments on class blogs. Audience and it's authenticity are very important and having other children comment is very powerful but definitely needs organising and scaffolding by teachers.

Re: #oneres

Jo Badge — Sun, 02 Feb 2014 03:01:22 -0000

I can see the value in tracking resources. Why not curate as well and use packratius or something similar to pick up the tweets and bookmark them? I've just come back to using delicious/ packratius combination after a long absence and I've fallen back in love with it. My brain is usually too full to remember what I bookmarked but for some reason always knows I saw a good idea about something I need somewhere. My delicious collection has saved the day countless times, mostly from tweeted links. Or pinterest may work?
Part of the problem you describe is time, stretched attentions but curation is an issue too. A tag would help you pick it up, but searching on tags going back more than a few days is pretty unreliable.

Re: Google Teacher Academy UK – GTAUK

Jo Badge — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 07:30:05 -0000

nice post Dai :-) thanks

Re: #classroomorg

Jo Badge — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:27:49 -0000

thanks for these Pete - they are invaluable tips for PGCE students like me :-)

Re: #classroomorg Stash and flash

Jo Badge — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 06:22:12 -0000

I like this idea! Something similar I'd heard recently, more specifically for maths, was along the think, pair, share idea. Children to think of their answer silently, then turn to look at their partner when they have the answer. Only when BOTH children are looking at each other, can they share their answers. If they disagree, get them to share their methods with each other to see if either took a wrong step along the way, or can justify their thought process to the other.

Re: http://encorelesteph.tumblr.com/post/8337266354

Jo Badge — Tue, 02 Aug 2011 03:44:20 -0000

Great list. I have girls so my kit is similar but has pencil and small notepad in place of the car, and a hair band - also useful for holding sticks together in a bundle . I have a very small Swiss army knife (a ladies manicure one! Has scissors, tweezers, toothpick, small knife - brilliant for cutting fruit into kid friendly chunks, cutting newspaper into shapes/paper doll chains, tweezers for splinters, etc). I also carry two plasters and the smallest tube of Germoline I can find - has an anaesthetic effect (and can be called 'magic' and therefore solves all bumps and scrapes instantly).

Re: Careers support from Corporate Services

Jo Badge — Fri, 27 May 2011 05:03:19 -0000

Good idea, Stuart. I guess it will depend on the willingness of the staff in Corporate Services to get involved. Do they have any volunteering at work activities already in place? Perhaps you could tap into that?

Re: We’ve been renamed

Jo Badge — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 05:12:29 -0000

Keeping 'learning development' is essential if you want students to continue to use the superb services that you have available in this area. I can't see the image on the mobile site, but subtitling sounds a good idea if including 'learning' in the main title is not an option.

Re: Remembering the milk

Jo Badge — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 15:01:22 -0000

I'm not using smart lists, but think it would probably help. My brain tends to work on hard dates though, so I might think, I need to have this done by 8 April, rather than 'in five days' (I know they are the same thing!!). Sometimes there are things I won't need to do for several months but know exactly when they are needed for - eg conference presentations - how do you schedule those?
Also, while I'm here.. Have your tags evolved from this original system? Will be good to talk this over at our rtm coffee next week :-) I'll blog my system.

Re: Google docs not so good for long docs?

Jo Badge — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 06:50:06 -0000

I guess the answer might be - google docs was designed for online documents, so page numbers, cross references etc are not necessary where 'screens' can resize and reflow your writing and a hyperlink is another way to link to two things... once theses go over to electronic only submission this won't matter any more (though why do a PhD if you can't get a doorstop out of it?!) ... perhaps you're just ahead of the curve Stu ;-)

Re: Ideas for this year’s team building day

Jo Badge — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 10:25:56 -0000

@stujohnson ah but I can comment when I'm on Chrome. Hey ho. Lab day out fodder here is usually Alton Towers, Canal boat trip or outdoor pursuits centre. Much more on the social element here in science... ;-) In terms of budget, people pay to go, not paid for by department.

Re: Six month acting-up-iversary

Jo Badge — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 13:56:00 -0000

I've been using the WP app to start blog posts which I can come back to later. I've also set up the post by email, which is useful for dumping notes from iPod note into a blog but can be used for quick posts too. I tend to find that I need to write when inspiration or frustration strike, hence the mobile solutions. They aren't pretty but they get the job done.

Re: 30 things I’ve learned in 30 years.

Jo Badge — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:19:00 -0000

great list Doug - still can't read the phrase 'confidence is a preference' without launching into a full version of Blur's Park life though.... ;-)

Re: How do you solve a problem like delicious?

Jo Badge — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:09:04 -0000

A few things that you can't do: Delicious was useful for quick and easy RSS feeds from tags to quickly create targeted content on blogs etc, I often pointed people at a collection of links under a tag - easy way to display this on a single page to someone. Nothing particularly earth shattering or irreplaceable? How many questions a day do you see on twitter of the 'dear lazy web, where was that thing about the do da?' it's quicker to ask your PLN than look for it yourself. I guess the question is where are my PLN getting those answers from for me? most likely it's from their own memory of a few keywords and a google search, not a bookmarking service. We are the hive mind :-)

Re: How do you solve a problem like delicious?

Jo Badge — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:00:36 -0000

I've never been social in delicious, it was always just a useful brain store for me, which I guess was your point about Gresham's law. Twitter is my main source of resource discovery these days, and bookmarking via packratius to delicious was useful for my addled memory. I'll continue to bookmark in some other service, probably diigo, cos I like the look of the highlighting and annotation idea - thinking ahead for times when I'm studying and reading online.
Many of our first year students couldn't see the point of bookmarking - they trust so absolutely in the power of google to return them to a place they visited before. Perhaps google search will become so invasive and intelligent that we won't need bookmarking at all?

Re: Rocketboom Tech on QR codes

Jo Badge — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 04:44:49 -0000

They just won't go away will they? I also still can't see the point, but they are doing the rounds in schools again. See my recent bookmarks: http://www.delicious.com/jo... Tom Barrett observed that his reception kids found navigating to web sites using a QR code and a webcam easy to do (useful if you don't have the ability to read or write yet!). I got a QR code app on the touch, but the Waitrose ads keeping going past me too quick to use it yet ;-)

Re: Google Presentations in Lectures

Jo Badge — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 06:26:46 -0000

Interesting stuff. Did you think about the impact of the google chat window when you were writing your slides? i.e. if you were using voting handsets, you would have specific slides asking questions and perhaps some slides to deal with possible responses. Was the intention of the window to simply allow 'hand raising' if the students didn't understand? Dare I mention learning design here?! ;-) Perhaps you would have had a different response if you had designed an activity that necessitated use of the chat box - something for the next set of lectures? BS3035? ;-)

Re: MailChimp ‘opened’ stats and MS Outlook reading pane

Jo Badge — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 09:15:36 -0000

I like this post in the comments now.

Re: Twitter Licence

Jo Badge — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:09:34 -0000

so can you use this screenshot of your tweet - just because it doesn't have any background on it, it's still recognisable as a tweet....

Re: Twitter Licence

Jo Badge — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:08:06 -0000

so how does this work? ARe you saying you publish the 'words' of your tweets? I thought that the twitter licence was about the image/ bird/ t symbol etc on screenshots, or have I misunderstood?

Re: Xpert

Jo Badge — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 05:51:11 -0000

Xpert can automatically get the attribution right for your image too :-) see: http://drbadgr.wordpress.co...

Re: Off for chat with the VC this afternoon

Jo Badge — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 05:01:44 -0000

Hope you can crank the sound all the way up to 11 ;-)
Good luck, hope the suit isn't too hot in the sunshine. Remember to plug the Lord DaveOWhite wisdom - who or what makes our institution's digital identity?

Re: Corrosive

Jo Badge — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 18:18:21 -0000

finally watched both of these last night/ tonight. Excellent stuff: http://jobadge.posterous.co.... The resistance over grades was staggering - I knew it was bad, but these guys were only year 8 and the rot had set in already. Staff were just as bad :-( I see it beginning with my year 3 girls - weekly times tables tests need to score 100% before moving to next digit in the sequence. Neither understand the first thing about what the tables mean, they've just learnt a rhyme to help them answer the questions. Very sad.

Re: Why parents don’t engage with schools

Jo Badge — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:02:13 -0000

Very true Doug. As a parent I would love to be more involved in my daughters' school. I am chair of the PTA and have volunteered in the classroom but I still feel pretty shut out. I know that most other parents feel even more in the dark about school than I do. Perhaps our school isn't typical but I feel we have lots that parents could offer and the school doesn't want to engage with us. I know it's hard, but a few basics, like a photo board so we know who the staff actually are, being able to catch a teacher's eye and arrange to see them later in the week, open assemblies for parents to join in. It doesn't take a great deal to make us feel welcomed and involved.