Archive for July, 2009

What’s so special about classrooms?

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

Both within the current economic context and the educational imperative to provide a more cohesive approach to educational provison, now is the time to look at utilising all the resources available to us: after all, what is so special about classrooms?

Website Blocking: bear hunts, battlefronts and missed opportunities?

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytc0U2WAz4s

What you’ll hopefully have found is Michael Rosen, possibly the UK’s most celebrated children’s poet, performing ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’, at your finger tips. A brilliant opportunity to engage with a crafted performance of a poem, directed at the viewer, with sub-titles to read along with. A valuable resource, right there in your living room, office, or wherever else you access the internet. But not in your classroom.