Inspired by Simon Job, this is a post about how I surf the torrential tidal wave of information that is out there on the Internet, how I filter it down into a manageable stream to consume and how I save the best bits for later. I have been using Google Reader for the last 3 years or so [...]

Last week I began hearing some twittering about ads appearing on Edublogs blogs.  A little investigation on the Edublogs forums showed a post which, to be fair, dates back some months detailing the fact that ads will be added at random to free accounts.  They can quickly be removed for $40 a year as part [...]

Ed Balls has, well, sorry, had the balls to ditch SATs for 14 year olds in England. I can’t quite describe how elated I am!  Ignoring last years fiasco, these tests have narrowed the curriculum, the teaching opportunities and pupils enthusiasm for the subject for years.  The league tables that accompanied them often narrowed a [...]

The £60m 2-year DCSF project has kicked off at our school.  For the uninitiated this is a government funded scheme to put laptops into some of the most disadvantaged homes in the country. To quote: Computers for Pupils Computers for Pupils is a £60 million, two-year programme (2006–2008) aimed at helping some of the most [...]

The Beeb have an amusing news story about a school in Kent who are going to give pupils detention if their parents park in the bus lane outside school. I can just imagine the arguments if we tried to enforce this at our school! Technorati Tags: News

The Guardian has an article today discussing the rapid adoption of eeePCs in schools, apparently with Ministerial support. I’m still impatiently waiting for my 6 to arrive, they won’t be ordered until the school’s trial of Wi-Fi is underway and as with all things in school that is taking longer than expected Jonesieboy’s trials have [...]