This is an image I created using pulpomizer.com. Thanks to Julian Wood for drawing my attention to this application in one of his talks. — This is an image I created using pulpomizer.com. Thanks to Julian Wood for drawing my attention to this application in one of his talks.

A cornucopia of comic-making applications (updated)

December 18, 2025

If you like to use comics and cartoons in your teaching, and encourage students to do so too, you'll like this collection of comic-making utilities.

World Book and Copyright Day

March 3, 2022

World Book Day is with us again today, March 3rd, when it is celebrating its 25th birthday! Here are some activities and resources to make it a day to remember.

Book review bulletin 1

May 13, 2020

I’ve recently reviewed four ed tech-related books. Here are links to them. They are: Teachers vs Tech? * How charts lie * Little quick fix: finding the theme in your data * Hello world: how to be human in the age of the machine

Photo by Andras Vas on Unsplash — Photo by Andras Vas on Unsplash

What do kids get up to online?

February 4, 2019

Here are several research reports on kids’ behaviour online.

A cornucopia of comic-making applications

October 10, 2017

If you like to use comics and cartoons in your teaching, and encourage students to do so too, you'll like this collection of comic-making utilities.

Handy hints and tips for writers

October 21, 2016

This is a round-up of four articles consisting of useful tips and tools for writers who use modern technology.

Quick looks at Bett 2014

January 24, 2014

If you’re heading to Bett today or tomorrow, here are a few things you might like to look at.

Education Technology and ICT article round-up

January 27, 2012

Here are a few good reads you may have missed in the last week or so, including an invitation to enter an article for a blog carnival, the deadline for which is this Sunday!

Recent book reviews

Review: When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

Hopefully, neither you nor I will ever find ourselves in court, undergoing a medical procedure, or taking an important exam.

Review: Finding Fibonacci: The Quest to Rediscover the Forgotten Mathematical Genius Who Changed the World

Finding Fibonacci is a memoir of the authors’ quest to find out about Fibonacci.

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Quick look: The Teachers' Standards in Primary Schools

This is very well set out. It takes each standard, and gives you ideas on how to achieve it, and what success in this context looks like.

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Quick look: How Computer Games Help Children learn

When I was teaching Econnures I realised that I could have taught quite a chunk of the synabus if I'd been able to run Sim City on the school network.

Quick look: Reinventing Project-Based Learning

I can verify from first hand experience that PBL kept students highly engaged, and helped them to develop skills such as working with others and independent research.

Quick look: The Human Touch

Although this book is published by the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, the focus is not on IT at all.

Quick look: Better Living through science

I have often thought that I would have been much more interested in science at school, and been much more successful at it, had the teachers taught us anything of practical value.

Quick look: Tubes: Behind the scenes at the internet

We are all so accustomed to using the internet, searching the world wide web — "going online" — that most of us most of the time probably do not stop to consider the question: yes, but where exactly is it?

Quick look: Profits, Prophets, Coaches and Kings: (When) do leaders make a difference?

I have somewhat dichotomous views of this question of whether leaders make a difference, or much of a difference.

Review: Power Up, by Matthew Lane

This book looks at the maths concepts — and, to some extent, the physics concepts — hidden in popular video games.