January 29, 2009
- Fizz and Buzz at the Annual ICT Register Showcase
Tuesday 27th January was the Annual ICT Register Showcase event at the wonderful venue of Holywell Park at Loughborough University.
Lightbox Education ( formerly known as Softease) were sponsoring the event again this year and there was a real Buzz! I was there to support one of the schools presenting at the the second set of Showcases, just [...]
December 11, 2008
- We are listening!
At a recent Softease staff gathering I talked about the power and use of Blogs with specific reference to those being written by our customers. Staff that don’t get the opportunity to meet directly with teachers and pupils, such as designers, developers and support staff, can often have a insight into how their developments, ideas and suggestions [...]
October 21, 2008
- Honeycomb Pilot in Cornwall - Phase 2 kicks off!
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Doug Dickinson and I concluded that in the end, it really must be our own fault…
At the beginning of 2008 we both took part in a 2-day Cornwall LA-hosted residential course in Newquay, including a half-day field trip visit we were both really looking [...]
July 4, 2008
- Cornwall Honeycomb pilot project presentation 1st July 2008
In this audio recording Linda Prideaux talks about the recent pilot project in Cornwall where schools have been using Honeycomb tools to collaborate on a number of innovative projects, including collaborating with schools in India, and improving writing for gifted and able KS1 pupils.
Linda has written a case study about this pilot project which is [...]
March 17, 2008
- Honeycomb debut in Cornwall pilot project
I came across a great quote this morning from a Classroom 2.0 blog post by Bruce Nightingale. Although he is unable to attribute it specifically it is certainly worthy of a wider audience:
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.”
My [...]
January 14, 2008
- Honeycomb unveiled to the world at BETT’08
Thanks to Doug Dickinson once again for a sterling week’s work at the BETT 2008 Show in London’s Olympia last week.
Doug gave two excellent presentations. The first, to an absolutely packed seminar room on Thursday morning, was entitled ‘Web 2.0 for the 21st Century School‘ and was unusually run from the blog that Doug had [...]
