When the term “teaching profession” arises, my reaction is more often than not to borrow from Gandhi and opine that such a thing would be a good idea.
Read MoreHow to adapt materials for online learning
You may wish to write some supplementary material to accompany the existing resources, consisting of suggestions or prompts for the teacher. Here is a list of considerations to guide the creation of these supplementary resources.
Read MoreTips for experts who now have to teach online
UPDATED! If you are an expert in your field, and now teach adults online, but don’t have any formal training as a teacher, you may find these tips useful.
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Zoom meeting, by Terry Freedman
Converting an offline course to an online one
In 2019 I taught an introductory course on blogging, for adults. I was invited to teach it again. Then a small event called a pandemic intervened, so I was told that the course would be moved from a physical classroom to an online one. My reaction? Excellent.
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Not another national strategy (thank goodness)
For years it’s been the case, or at least seems to be the case, that satisfying Ofsted inspectors who may not know anything about ICT or Computing is a safer bet than trying to be innovative.
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Dystopian visions: The Snowball Effect
In The Snowball Effect, by Katherine Maclean, the focus is on mathematics, or an innovation called “social mathematics” to be accurate. This probably sounds rather dry, but it was really quite prescient.
Read MoreThumbnail sketch: Teaching in the Online Classroom
I’m always wary of books that are written while the issues that it addresses are new and current.
Read MoreThumbnail sketch: Online learning for dummies
This book addresses online learning from the point of view of the learner, rather than the teacher or the institution
Read MoreThumbnail sketch: The Turning Point
I like where this book is coming from. It regards teachers as experts.
Read MoreBarriers to purchasing education technology
This article outlines some general factors that prevent heads of department and other school leaders from buying products and services.
Read MoreWhat should your organisation's newsletter contain?
I wrote this article for a readership of edtech companies. But the suggestions would work just as well for any organisation that wishes to keep in touch with its members/clients/visitors etc.
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The scream by Terry Freedman
Judge not -- again
In my experience, an expectation of compliance was baked in to the system, and that really does mitigate against innovation.
Read MoreProduct placement technology: a step too far
There’s something a bit “iffy” about inserting an advert into a programme that wasn’t there originally.
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On this day: Covid19 and the ed tech revolution
It’s astonishing to realise that a year ago today I wrote about education technology in the context of dealing with the educational fallout from Covid19.
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Book review: Your Press Release Is Breaking My Heart
Most press releases are boring. Even worse, some are annoying. And the people who send them can be even more annoying. I can tell you these things with some authority because I receive dozens of them a day.
Read MoreA great survey program
If you set surveys, have a look at Tripetto. It has some lovely features.
Read MoreUsing codes when note-taking
My various squiggles in my notebook or Evidence Form may not have meant much to anybody else, but it conveyed a lot of information to me.
Read MoreDystopian visions: My Object All Sublime
What if an amazing technology like time travel were used purely and simply as a form of punishment?
Read MoreObtaining customer feedback: Why do it, how to do it, and how to use it
Why feedback matters.
Read MoreUsing a word cloud generator to check students' work
I ran the Department for Education’s educational technology strategy through a word cloud generator to see if it really was about educational technology.
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