I’ve always been of the strong opinion that (a) people should talk about programming, not coding, and (b) people learn best on a kind of need to know basis.
Read MoreQuestion mark - Terry Freedman
My (somewhat jaded) view of most high-profile Government ed tech initiatives
The trouble with government education technology initiatives (Updated)
A possibly cynical take on government-funded initiatives for education technology in schools.
Read MoreWhat Does It Take To Run A Successful Computing Department?
Just taken over your school's computing department? Here are my top 10 tips for ensuring success from the start.
Read MoreHow to run an event, such as a webinar, without tears
In yesterday’s article, we asked Why should an edtech company run a conference or webinar programme? In this article, we look at things to consider in order to maximise the chances of your event being a success.
Read MoreWhy should an edtech company run a conference or webinar programme?
Running a conference, a webinar or a series of webinars, can be a very useful marketing tool for a company.
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The scream by Terry Freedman
My worst IT training days -- index (Updated)
We all have the occasional awful experience when giving training. Here are mine!
Read More11 Marketing trends in 2021
Do a search on the internet and you will discover that there are many, many articles on this theme, most of which agree with each other only in one or two areas.
Read MoreMy worst IT training days #6: The day my website was shut down (updated)
I wonder if there is anything more discombobulating than announcing, with great fanfare, a brilliant resource to a class full of teacher trainees, only to be greeted by a dreadful error message instead?
Read MoreMy worst IT Training Days #5: Whiteboard not working (Updated)
Worthy cogitations about what I might have done to avoid being faced with a non-working whiteboard — and why that situation arose in the first place.
Read MoreMy worst IT training days #4: Too much admin on a course (Updated)
How the admin involved in a course led to its being abandoned by one group of trainers.
Read MoreMy worst IT training days #3: Large-scale training (Updated)
Using an external IT trainer is risky. Here are a few things to insist on to reduce the likelihood of a ruined training day.
Read MoreMy Worst IT Training Days #2: Another Internet Training Day (Updated)
It’s always a good thing to stipulate in advance all the things you need in order to run a training session —including even the most basic and obvious ones….
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My worst IT training days #1: Internet training day (Updated)
Here’s the first article in a series about my worst training days — the ones in which I was the trainer I mean! This was first published in 2018, but is still highly relevant.
Read MoreTo be an ed tech maverick, you need to be sensible (updated)
What does it mean to be a maverick? To me, it means not going along with the general consensus about something, just because it’s a consensus. There is always a natural tendency to think “all those people can’t be wrong”, or “there’s no smoke without fire”, but in fact all those people could be wrong and there could be smoke without fire.
Read More10 tips for launching your business strategy
Before considering any ideas, we ought, perhaps, to consider the question: why bother? After all, the situation is so fluid that any strategy you prepare now could be rendered out of date by next week. If one thing has proven to be certain about the pandemic, it’s that nothing is certain. It’s almost like trying to build a house on sand.
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We can only please, by Terry Freedman. I think I saw this sign in a local hospital
What are good marketing communications? What are good communications (and what should your strategy include)?
When I took up a senior management position in a local authority, an irate headteacher phoned me on my second day. She had had her laptop taken away for repairs two weeks ago, and had heard nothing since. I told her I’d look into it. I had the following conversation with the relevant team…
Read MoreTable of contents code testing
This is a test of some code. Don’t bother reading it.
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Reflections on technology in the time of Covid19
Teaching and learning have moved online to a greater or lesser extent, with varying degrees of success. What has this meant, and what might it mean?
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Learning together. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Creating a staff IT skills audit with Google forms
You would be forgiven for thinking that every teacher in the country has spent lockdowns being so immersed in technology that they have all become experts. There is no more need for staff training in IT skills — and so no need to conduct a staff audit.
If only!
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Book reviewing, by Terry Freedman
6 Graphic "Novels" for Computing teachers
If you’re looking for some good reading material, these “graphic novel” books may be just what you need. They’re all non-fiction, hence the quotation marks.
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