Literacy Resources

I have now been blogging for 13 months – I forgot the blog birthday.  Strange how online life mirrors real life ; ) I thought for the end of 2009 I would pick out 10 things that I discovered and that have become a part of me, some of which I have blogged about and [...]

I have just read a reveiw (scroll down the page after clicking to see the review) of the book Nudge by Thaler and Sunstein and I think it was what I was trying to do today when introducing online collaborative tools to my colleagues.  By showing how I use them and the difference they make to [...]

I wanted something to start off my CPD session today with a little christmas cheer.  Many thanks to @cthomas18 who suggested I Elf Myself.  So here it is and a Happy Christmas to you all! Send your own ElfYourself eCards

This week I will be working with a group of consultants, literacy and maths, thinking about online collaboration before we have our christmas meal.  They don’t just want the ‘how do you do it’ but want some of the ‘why do you do it?’ particularly where twitter is involved I suspect. I want to share [...]

I wasn’t quite brave enough to make the title Have you Seen my SpicyNodes?  However, have you?  My thanks to Tim Rylands who blogged about the pinball machine on the BBC site.  I haven’t had the time to work it out fully but did explore some of the sites that it suggested and Spicy Nodes [...]

As part of the boys’ writing project that I am involved in, we interviewed the boys to find out what they thought about writing.  They didn’t disappoint!  They like to ‘do’.  They dislike writing because of the physical aspects, holding the pen/pencil,  scruffy handwriting, stamina related to arm ache etc.  But what one of the [...]