John Connell points to a superb step-by-step guide on the classroom management issues for getting your class started blogging, from Al Upton.

Andrew Brown has had more time to play with the Asus EeePC, on which we gave a video tour last month. He’s started to find a few challenges for using this in a classroom setting.

How can we make music on a computer slow down so that we can practise better?
Many students across the country use the commendable repertoire from Rock School’s graded books for the performing components of Standard Grade, Higher and Advanced Higher Music. One of the advantages of the CD which comes with each book is that […]

The people behind Flickr, the online photo sharing site, have gone into overdrive! They’ve just released some great tools for users which have a multitude of uses in the classroom as well.
I love Flickr. It’s a great source of inspiration and ideas for the classroom teacher, and it also allows me to have the vicarious […]

The front cover of this weeks New Scientist boasted a promising article about procrastination. Uncharacteristically, I ripped it open and began reading immediately. If anyone in my orbit would like to borrow it, just ask and I’ll bring it in sometime in the next fifteen years.
Seriously though, my mountain of NS back-numbers is quite redundant […]

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Will must have finally ended up with some spare time hunting around YouTube this morning to find this. University researcher Johnny Chung Lee has taken a £34.25 Wiimote, some old ballpoint pens and some infrared buttons you could find in your Physics department to create a system that can turn any surface into […]

Test your ears on this Scale Ear Trainer which forms part of Ricci Adams excellent theory site. There’s much more to the site than this but, for it to be really useful to pupils, I feel I need to prepare some introductory material to smooth over the differences in UK and US nomenclature.

When we talk about social networking, are we sending out the right signals? At the Thinkuknow training session in Perth this month I was struck by how much we tend to emphasis the dangers whilst barely acknowledging the benefits.
The Thinkuknow training session in Perth last night started by covering some of the same ground as […]

How many epiphanies are you allowed in a lifetime? Assuming that the answer is - as many as you’re prepared to let in - then, are they likely to have anything in common?
I’d say that the common factor in all those moments when I was struck by something so meaningful that it should really have […]

As the working week ends at MGS, I found myself present at the Teach-Meet Roadshow featuring digital video, online publishing, digital photography, animation & podcasting. I sampled the podcasting workshop.
An interesting site which David flagged up was find sounds from where little snippets of music and sound can be downloaded to spice up your podcast. […]