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Back 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 […]

self-reflection Teacher Training + Support Workflow

Brave or Stupid? Abandoning email #workflow #teacher5aday #wellbeing #productivity

There are plenty of articles out there about email productivity, labelling, filtering. Colour stars abound. Branching labels grow unchecked. I won’t link to them here. My workflow – for years – has almost always been manually controlled: Interesting / useful email message? Forward to Evernote for archiving and tagging. An action from an email message? […]

CPD Evernote

Quick test for www.feedmyinbox.com

Not much of a blog post, just a test to see if WordPress RSS can be fed into my Evernote account. I set up an account with www.feedmyinbox.com (RIP) using my Evernote email address, then changed the account settings so each post is delivered as an individual message with the post title as the email […]

#RGCdevicetrial CPD Evernote ICT for Learning self-reflection Teacher Training + Support

17 iPad apps for teachers #RGCdevicetrial

Tomorrow I hand over the iPad to a colleague, so I’m signing out of all linked accounts and removing whatever personal data I can. I’ve also purged the apps installed and categorised them so the next person using the iPad isn’t overwhelmed with pages upon pages of apps to investigate. Here are the apps that […]

CPD Development Evernote

Using Excel, Macros and @Evernote for Course Planning

I use Evernote a lot. I store interesting tweets, grab sections of web pages for later, have a form of GTD in there (The Secret Weapon) to keep me focussed. I took part in the 30-day paperless challenge in September and had a lot of fun seeing what was possible. I’ve even started to get […]

CPD Curriculum For Excellence self-reflection

TeachMeet Aberdeen October 2011

On Wednesday evening I once again found myself at MacRobert Building, University of Aberdeen six months on from the last one organised primarily by Stuart Brown. The wikispace advertising the TeachMeet can be found here and, in addition to this, Stuart made use of social media to extend the reach of the promotional material. This […]

CPD Curriculum For Excellence Development

Using iPod Touches in the classroom #2

In my last post on this topic I described the hardware setup process involved in getting iPods ready for the classroom. This week I had my first development day dedicated to the setting up appropriate processes for teaching staff to bid in to use the iPods with their own classes. I began by creating a […]