I have now had a chance to explore the RM ASUS MiniBook further. We have five of these machines in East Lothian. These are being trialled by a number of teaching staff. In addition to my recent post, here are a few more of my thoughts.
Here are a few of my notes- bearing in mind I am reflecting [...]
This week and weekend I, along with a number of other colleagues from Scotland, attended the BETT Show at London’s Olympia. BETT is one of the world’s largest educational technology events. It had been my intention to write one or two posts during my time there, however time simply did not allow.
One train journey, three [...]
As there has been a huge increase in the number of classrooms that now have Interactive White Boards (IWBs) in East Lothian, we are holding a number of twilight sessions. Staff can opt into these sessions. This evening we held a session based at Knox Academy. The session was hosted by Janice Black and John [...]
Today was a very happy and long awaited day for all at Knox Academy. Today we were finally converted to our high speed Wide Area Network (WAN). This conversion ultimately means that the speed and capacity of our Internet connection has dramatically increased. Prior to this up-grade, connecting to the Internet and school server could [...]
On Friday I attended our Biology Subject Support Group meeting at Preston Lodge High School, chaired by Fraser Kiernan. These meetings are always good for catching up with fellow East Lothian Biology Teachers and of course sharing our good practice. We covered many topics during Friday’s meeting including relevant resources, risk assessment and a proposal [...]
We are now in our second week of an HMIe inspection at Knox Academy. This is our week of intensive observation.
Although my department was not chosen to be fully inspected, we were hoping that we would have the satisfaction of an HMIe visit.
Today was our/my lucky day! I was fortunate enough to have the [...]
The Biology Department at Knox Academy put on a fish dissection annually. We do this every February during a named lunchtime. We show the dissection under our video microscope on screen. It can sometimes be quite difficult to identify the various inner organs, so we have a prepared slide show on a second screen that [...]
Just a quick post. One website where quite a lot of resources can be found is World of Teaching.
However, beware. Many of the PowerPoint’s are either incomplete, or require editing. Certainly, with regards to Biology, they do not cover a lot of the course learning outcomes adequately. However, there is the odd gem to be [...]
This may not be any big secret to a number of you, but I felt it was worth a mention on my blog. As we know, the internet has lots and lots of information. There are lots and lots of ways to filter this information, allowing you to find the particular facts etc, that you [...]
With the second term ending within the next 24 hours, life is more manic than ever at school. The S6 Pantomime is looking great. The S6 have really pulled together; thank you to everyone that has helped us. We haven’t been able to rehearse on stage due to tonight’s Christmas concert (fingers crossed all will [...]
