Embed SWF into PowerPoint
January 18, 2010 by chris · Leave a Comment
Embedding swf files (both animations and movies saved as SWF rather than FLV) into powerpoint is not especially easy, but this is the simplest way I have found, discovered by one of my year 11 students and demonstrated by him to the rest of the class.
Towards ‘Outstanding, Wigmore High School, Leominster
January 3, 2010 by chris · Leave a Comment
Reports here http://moodlexchange.com/?p=338#more-338
Wigmore is a small school of 450 students that has a specialism in ICT and Maths. The students begin life at Wigmore about average in ability but make rapid progress in KS3, by the end of year 11 all have got at least a grade C in ICT and two thirds have an A or A*
Towards ‘Outstanding’ OFSTED – Charles Read Grantham
January 1, 2010 by chris · Leave a Comment
Charles Read was classed as ‘Outstanding’ in its last ICT subject inspection. What is it that they do that could help other schools improve their game? Well it certainly isn’t an above average intake.
Research for a busy teacher
January 1, 2010 by chris · Leave a Comment
Google alerts are a useful way of collecting information on a regular basis, without much effort on your part. You can decide how frequent you want the searches to be returned to you.
Google Alerts and its related Blog Search Gadget are extremely useful research tools that require no day-to-day attention. Set up the search terms and either use a second email account or a filter for your main account and the results will be delivered to you even though you are not actively searching.
