Beyond New Horizons

Category: Technology

  • Back to Beyond

    Back to Beyond

    The title of this blog – Beyond New Horizons – takes its name from an idea that I had when I first started thinking about how I view the world, change and innovation. I have always felt the need to have an “eye on the future” ever since the first…

  • Better Tools, Better Learning II Conference – Latvia

    Better Tools, Better Learning II Conference – Latvia

    Earlier in the year I was invited by Helga Holtkamp the director of the European Educational Publishers Group (EEPG) to speak at their Better Tools, Better Learning II Conference in Riga, Latvia. It’s always a huge priviledge to share the work from my classroom at different educational events and it’s…

  • Retiring Technologies

    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…

  • Blogging and the Imagined Audience

    Blogging and the Imagined Audience

    I’ve had a great time engaging in blogging for audience and purpose with my class over the past term and a half. Not least, our communication with NASA Educator Astronaut Barbara Morgan last month. Blogging has proven itself to really bring the world into my classroom and allow the children…

  • Blogging and Badges

    Blogging and Badges

    I have always liked the idea of badges (after using Foursquare and GetGlue) and have mulled over the idea of how Open Badges might look in my classroom.

  • #ngconf – A perfect tonic in these troubled times…

    I have briefly returned from digital leave to write about the fantastic Northern Grid for Learning Conference (#ngconf) which took place yesterday in Newcastle. I spoke at the conference last year but was even more excited to attend this year as a large proportion of the speakers were folk from…

  • Using Twitter in the Primary Classroom

    My article about the use of Twitter in Orange Class (@ClassroomTweets) was recently published in English 4-11. I have changed some of the ways in which we use Twitter even within the short time between writing and publication of the article. I plan on writing another more up-to-date reflection on…

  • Google Teacher Academy UK – A New Literacies Perspective

    When I first started my career in education I considered myself a technologist. I was interested in anything digital and used technology in my everyday life. I also loved teaching ICT. However as my time in the classroom and my increasing research work moved on I became more focused on…