It begins

What do you do first lesson of the year? What do you do first in that lesson? With that group for the first time. Remember, this is the first class of the year after the long summer break, and after the long induction and prequel and all that thinking about how you’re going to do [...]

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Tale of two teachers

Above: : I stop at the local hotelier on the way home to relate my marvellous tale. I met an English teacher from another school at a conference last week, who startled me by proudly stating over coffee that he banned computers from his classroom, ‘I want them writing, not typing!’, he proclaimed as if [...]

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Office 2010: the movie

Okay, so not many of us actually LIKE Microsoft, especially in the bloated operating system department, but most of us spend a lot of time with their tools, and I’ve been twittering away about the new OneNote 2010 and it’s exciting sounding capabilities for a while now. OneNote is one tool that’s already become embedded [...]

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OneNote Toolkit for Educators

I’ve blogged about OneNote before a few times; probably the ONE tool that I’d really miss if I ever moved over to the Mac platform and left the Windows side behind. It’s a part of MS Office, and a really flexible, functional tool for gathering notes. I’ve set up my students with it over the [...]

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