Category: General
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New Book Chapter – The Role of Schools in Children’s Online Safety
I’m really excited to be able to share that I have just finished the final proof-reading and edits for my chapter “The Role of Schools in Children’s Online Safety” which is due to be published in June 2017 as part of the book “Online Risk to Children: Impact, Protection and…
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In defence of multiliteracies and multimodal texts
Over the past two years my blogging activities have become significantly reduced. This isn’t just on my professional blog but my blogging and writing has taken a hit in every area. Various factors have contributed to this including workload, moving house, preparing for my wedding and life in general. My activity…
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Online Field Trips
A great way to engage children in learning about healthy lifestyles through innovative use of digital technologies! A couple of months ago I came across The Tesco Eat Happy Project which has been set up to help educate young people in having healthy lifestyles. The project aligned well with my…
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Maximising the Potential for Interactions Online
Today I had the privilege of sharing some of the work of my pupils and projects at the Captia Managing the Safe Use of Social Media and Online Gaming Conference in Manchester. It was an interdisciplinary and multi-agency conference so it was great to be able to engage in discussion…
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Expedition Everest – Thematic Learning
The way that meaningful learning contexts and extended projects can be embedded in the primary classroom has always been a research and pedagogical interest of mine. I have developed many projects during my time in the classroom including the Brer Rabbit Critical Literacy project I ran in collaboration with The…
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Retiring Technologies
With the change of command ceremony on Saturday, our time on the ISS [International Space Station] has really come to an end and our focus is on descent. Last time, I landed in the summer in the desert of California in a space shuttle. This time, it will be winter…
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#UTASNewLits – Why I travelled to Australia
In June I received an unexpected email from Angela Thomas, who I have met in 2009 at the UKLA Conference in Greenwich, inviting me to be a keynote speaker at a the New Literacies, Digital Media and Classroom Teaching conference (#UTASNewLits) at the University of Tasmania on 3rd September. Obviously I jumped…
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How do you inspire writers? – The finished resource!
Following on from my previous blog post I would to thank every single person who contributed views, comments and projects to the resource. I have collected the information and it is now available for all to see. Please feel free to share the presentation with other colleagues. There are some fantastic…
Beyond New Horizons 