Category Archives: action research

Music Lessons, Web2.0 Style – using Moodle

Music seems to be a bit of a theme on the blog at the moment. An old friend from Ultraversity days, Sarah Hackett, got in touch recently to tell me about her new venture. Sarah did some fine research (First … Continue reading

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Join the Teddy Bears Around the World project?

I love global collaboration projects. They are such powerful stimuli for children’s learning. I’ve been keen on them ever since I first found Flat Stanley and I even initiated a small scale one as part of my degree. You don’t … Continue reading

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Asking Real Questions

POP Quiz-Text Version POP Quiz 1 Do you know the true art of questioning? (If Students Wrote the Quiz) Can you answer “NO” to all 5 questions? * Do you put our names at the BEGINNING of directed questions? If … Continue reading

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Training TAs NCFE 2 – My new job.

I am about to embark on a new venture. I will be teaching NCFE level 2 with a group of teaching assistants for a few hours a week. It’s exciting and daunting at the same time. It’s an opportunity to … Continue reading

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Action Research in Action!

This podcast is a great introduction to Action Research in the school setting. (It made me quite nostalgic about my old learning community!). Rachel has a great podcast on her blog all about her ICT cluster’s collaborative action research project: … Continue reading

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