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My best IT training days -- index

September 26, 2020

Technology goes wrong from time to time, but isn’t it wonderful when the technology and the training go well?

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In Leading & Managing Computing & ICT, Professional development, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags best IT training, training
Hearts, by Terry Freedman

Hearts, by Terry Freedman

My Best IT Training Days #6: It's like dating for the first time!

August 19, 2019

An interesting piece of feedback related to training in using education technology in lessons!

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In Professional development, On the lighter side Tags best IT training
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay

My Best IT Training Days #5: The girl with the website

August 12, 2019

Why knowing what the pupils in a class do digitally in their spare time can be a good idea.

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In Professional development Tags best IT training
Class, by Terry Freedman

Class, by Terry Freedman

My best IT Training Days #4: Using Year 7 kids

August 5, 2019

What were the benefits of using children to take a staff IT training session?

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In Professional development Tags best IT training, pupils training
The Press Association, by Terry Freedman

The Press Association, by Terry Freedman

My Best IT Training Days #3: A visit to the Press Association

July 29, 2019

In this article I itemise the things which made a teacher visit to the Press Association in London so valuable. Perhaps it can serve as a checklist of “like-to-haves” for any teacher visit that you are organising.

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In Professional development Tags best IT training, Press Association, teacher visit
Windows LiveWriter, by Terry Freedman

Windows LiveWriter, by Terry Freedman

My Best IT Training Days #2: Website development

July 25, 2019

How can you ensure that teachers who have signed up for your training day get the most out of it? The answer may prove unintuitive.

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In Professional development Tags best IT training, website development

My best IT training days #1: The Science Department

September 13, 2018

As a complement to my series of articles about my worst training days, I’ve started a series about my best ones. I believe we can learn from both sorts. In this article, I relate an experience of running a twilight training session for a secondary school science department.

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In Professional development, Using and Teaching Computing & ICT Tags best IT training, spreadsheets, pivot tables, science department
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