Sway Grantham

I have been interested in the concept of Digital Leaders for a while now having spoken to Sheli Blackburn (@SheliBB) a lot about the different things they do and what advice she had for setting them up. If you are not familiar with them here is a basic explanation:   Digital leaders are children within… Continue Reading.

Since starting my class blog (see the original post here: Class Blogging – The Future?)I have been working hard to find time in an already overflowing curriculum to show the children not just our blog, but other class blogs as well. We all know that as soon as you stop mentioning things, the children can… Continue Reading.

Unfortunately I was not about to attend the Naace Conference due to the expensive nature of it when my school would not pay for may, however, I was pleased to be able to attend the Teachmeet part of it. The turn out for the event was good and lots of interesting ideas were shared. The… Continue Reading.

This morning I had got up, reasonably early and decided to mark my spelling books. I was casually watching Twitter as I did this and saw that an ‘International Teachmeet’ was happening. I’d been to a Teachmeet before (see post: ) but never an international one which was entirely web-based so my curiosities drew me… Continue Reading.

Having only just introduced blogging to year 4 it quickly came around to the Feb29th.net blogging experience. In case you have not heard Feb 29th.net is the brain child of David Mitchel who is aiming to capture the world as it was on Feb 29th 2012. Everyone young and old was invited to join and… Continue Reading.

Over the half term break I have begun exploring the idea of having a class blog; I asked on Twitter for examples of established blogs from which I received several suggestions and of course one blog led to another. My main interest was to get my head around blogging, how people managed to fit it… Continue Reading.

When I first heard about Google Teacher Academy it was a USA-only event where educators got together and were introduced to various Google products to be use within the classroom. I was late at discovering that Google had since started running the academies in parts of Europe and that this year it was to be… Continue Reading.