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 [...]

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 [...]

We launched our boys writing project today.  It was a good morning where we explored some of the ideas that might be investigated in the classroom. We are using the lesson study model of CPD for this project.  I first read about lessons study in a wonderful book, The Teaching Gap by James Stigler and [...]