Weeknote 18th July 2014
Posted on July 21st, 2014
Where?
Brighton, Hampshire, Dudley, London
What?
- At the weekend I was involved in running Ed Invent Brighton, a workshop and hack day for educators to develop Ed Tech ideas. This will feed in to a Startup Weekend in Brighton in the Autumn to bring some of these ideas to life. It was a great weekend, with such enthusiasm from everyone involved. The NightZookeeper team wrote up proceedings here.
- Pulling together insights from the first stage of my Flipped Learning trial in Scottish schools to feed into report.
- Taking a day off for the wedding of some friends on Tuesday in Hampshire.
- Filming testimonial videos with teachers who have taken part in The Visible Classroom project in Dudley and London.
- Attending the Nesta 16th birthday party celebrations.
- Finishing off admin related to The Visible Classroom project which came to an end in schools this week.
- Writing blog posts for the TES and Nesta (links below).
Writing
Three posts from my series on ideas from my book, The Thinking Teacher.
A post for the TES in response to Nesta’s survey on teacher confidence.
Computing resources for teachers, Nesta blogs
A collection of resources to support teachers with the new curriculum.