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Bias with multiple perspectives
Posted in books, storytelling, thinking, transferable skills, tagged Raghava KK on September 11, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Past and present
Posted in education, thinking, tagged Joan of Arc on September 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Spotted this in a pupil’s jotter today: Joan of Arc was a cross dresser. She liked wearing men’s armour. Presumably the women’s armour was too expensive
Proverbs that appeal, no. 1
Posted in thinking, words, writing, tagged proverbs on June 25, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Those who say it can’t be done shouldn’t interrupt those of us that are doing it.
New blood I
Posted in education, information literacy, investigations, learning and teaching, librarians, thinking, web 2.0, websites, tagged student teachers on December 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every year, I speak to the student teachers about how important libraries are to education, and how they can get the best out of them. Usually, it goes along the lines of “Go and talk to the librarian – a lot. Keep them up to date in what your plans. Don’t forget to include them [...]
Vikings!
Posted in information literacy, investigations, resources, thinking, tagged Vikings on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Had a great time with 1st year making Viking posters. We started yesterday by identifying evidence for various kinds of Viking activity (as opposed to just copying from the books). Today each group took one topic each and after a quick discussion, went off to raid the resources. Six groups, six posters: Raiders, Traders, Farmers, [...]
Storyboarding with Deep Fried Films
Posted in education, For education, imagination, inspiration, learning and teaching, literacy, questioning, storytelling, television / films, thinking, transferable skills, tagged Deep Fried Films, Moving Image Education, storyboarding on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This was a fascinating bit of CPD with Martin Greechan from Deep Fried Films, looking at just one aspect of film-making: the storyboard. So what did we learn today? Film has certain similarities to books, with scenes instead of chapters, and a different grammar. First we learned some vocabulary There are different styles of shots: [...]
What’s the difference between a French kiss and a Belgian kiss?
Posted in thinking, words on October 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
They’re exactly the same, but the latter has a little more Flem. Hugh Dennis, QI [repeated 20th October 2009]
Water Week
Posted in education, imagination, learning and teaching, questioning, reading, resources, storytelling, thinking, transferable skills, tagged Eco Schools, water on October 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A blether with a colleague turned into a fully fledged plan for an Eco Schools cross-curricular Week of Water. It would obviously need to be ok’d by SMT, but nothing here is too difficult or costly and most of it ties in beautifully with what’s already in the curriculum. Just brainstorming, we came up with [...]
Reading inventions
Posted in learning and teaching, reading, thinking on May 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last year, I happened to mention to a class that one benefit of getting the bus home was that I could read, and that I could often read a book overnight. I expressed disappointment that I couldn’t do the same in the car. While most pupils expressed incredulity (or horror) at reading so much, one [...]
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