Teacher Training + Support
Using Replit to Deliver 21st Century Assessment #replitedfest2022
Below are the slides from my Replit EdFest 2022 session on 21st July 2022
Read MoreMail merge and splitting files Google Docs
We are in prelim season and just about at the stage where we analyse student marks individually and as a cohort. I wanted to use my Google Sheet prelim breakdown showing how students performed in each question of the exam as source for a mail merge so that I could generate individual reflection sheets for […]
Read MoreBack to blogging – why?
Image by Werner Moser from Pixabay I’m working through my evidence for my GTCS five yearly sign off and was sincerely grateful that I was an active blogger during my time abroad. I spent a long time yesterday making sure that the evidence (what I could include anyway given myGTCS upload issues) was linked to my development […]
Read MoreThis post is brought to you by the number 549 and the letter Q
This was the number facing me as I opened my email this morning: 549. 549 apparently unread emails. This was depressing. What a way to start the year! Already significantly behind! However I knew – in part at least – why the number had crept up to such heights. What I didn’t know was how […]
Read MoreOrganising Google Classrooms Effectively #GoogleET
There was some discussion on the Google Educator Facebook groups last week about how to best organise a large collection of Google Classrooms. You may already know that you can drag and drop the various icons in the main “Classes” page to put your most commonly used classes to the top of the list. But […]
Read MoreGoogle Certified Trainer event at Co.Lab, Alloa
It was an early start yesterday to travel down to Alloa, a place I’d never visited before! What struck me was how beautiful the drive from Kinross was, with the snow-capped Ochils accompanying me west through Clackmannanshire. Arriving at Co.Lab I was greeted by owner Pam Currie and Louise Jones and got stuck in to […]
Read MoreUpdated – Google Certified Educator (Level 2)
I’ve long been a fan of Google Suite for Education and first became a Google Certified Educator in October 2015. I don’t know why but I’ve never really tried to take this certification any further despite running regular training events in school since 2012, bar last school session. I deliberately took the decision to not […]
Read MoreReflections on #picademy June 2014
I really thought I’d posted this, but after re-authorising postach.io I decided to check through any incomplete blog posts and found this, so I obviously hadn’t! I did however manage to post the same article on the CAS Scotland website so you may have read this before! I’m really pleased to see the #picademy PD […]
Read MoreMagic Move in Keynote on iOS #ade2018 #AppleEDUChat
I caught up with the #AppleEDUChat twitter chat this morning and was taken with the idea of using Keynote for simple animations. I’d heard of the magic move transition before but hadn’t really explored the possibilities this offered. The example GIFs shown within the twitter chat really inspired me to take a closer look. How […]
Read MoreWhat’s on the #onepage now? #ade2018 #appleEduChat
I returned to the classroom a few days ago (for a Scot this seems far too early!) and so have cleared out the clutter along with the fridge and grouped my most used iPad apps together on a single page. This isn’t anything new – I know that @mcoutts81 amongst others have been doing this […]
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