Robert Jones\’s Interactive Maths

My esteemed colleague Mr Stebbing got the chance to use the Activote system with his class for the first time this afternoon.
It took him a bit of time to set things up correctly - mainly because the class lists I used to create the user database were out of date - but once he’d got [...]

From the week afer next I am being seconded one day per week to support the effective use of interactive whiteboard technology in East Lothian maths departments.
I’m quite excited about this role, for several reasons. Firstly, I’m delighted that the authority is able to back up its spending on whiteboard and voting technology with [...]

I was using the ActiVote pads with an S4 Foundation/General class yesterday, and noticed that one of the students wasn’t very enthusiastic. Today he/she came in before the rest of the class and said, as he/she passed the storage box “Is that those voting things - I don’t like them”. I took [...]

You wouldn’t believe how long I spent pondering the title of this post. Having rejected the witty, positive, negative, earnest and frivolous, I went for bland!
Summer was awesome. I spent a week snowboarding on the high glacier at Tignes in France and came away with a snowboard leader qualification.
Over the holidays, it became [...]