Comments on: Conference - initial reactions (Keynote) http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/03/30/conference-initial-reactions-keynote/ Digital Technologies for Learning Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:45:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Gill Medlicott http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/03/30/conference-initial-reactions-keynote/#comment-24962 Gill Medlicott Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:57:08 +0000 http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/03/30/conference-initial-reactions-keynote/#comment-24962 An excellent day thanks to Steve at everyone else for organising the event! Ewan's speech left me with so many new ideas to make the key stage 3 curriculum so much more interesting! I totally agree with Jude's comment about the primary school pupils! An excellent day thanks to Steve at everyone else for organising the event! Ewan’s speech left me with so many new ideas to make the key stage 3 curriculum so much more interesting!

I totally agree with Jude’s comment about the primary school pupils!

]]> By: Tim Goodman http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/03/30/conference-initial-reactions-keynote/#comment-24885 Tim Goodman Thu, 05 Apr 2007 20:02:44 +0000 http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/03/30/conference-initial-reactions-keynote/#comment-24885 Excellent event and a great day out. Ewan was an excellent choice of speaker- entertaining, inspiring and very relevant indeed! I see many ideas for schools as theoretically impressive but wholly impractical in the real world- especially in primary schools, but all of you and your teams' ideas and recommendations are well thought out and very practical. I will certainly be investing more of my time in school trying to open some eyes to some of the possibilities of blogging and the like! Thanks again. Tim Goodman. Excellent event and a great day out. Ewan was an excellent choice of speaker- entertaining, inspiring and very relevant indeed! I see many ideas for schools as theoretically impressive but wholly impractical in the real world- especially in primary schools, but all of you and your teams’ ideas and recommendations are well thought out and very practical. I will certainly be investing more of my time in school trying to open some eyes to some of the possibilities of blogging and the like! Thanks again. Tim Goodman.

]]> By: Jude Brown http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/03/30/conference-initial-reactions-keynote/#comment-24655 Jude Brown Fri, 30 Mar 2007 11:20:07 +0000 http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/03/30/conference-initial-reactions-keynote/#comment-24655 Thanks for all the efforts and organisation Steve et al. It was really good to get out and visit other schools - we never get to do this at other times and I learned lots from seeing how Thomas Adams's ICT dept is organised. HAve already nicked and used their google docs file for my Y11 BCS this morning - thanks, Max! Ewan's speech was inspirational, but the Primary School pupils' input was even more so... all the Secondary bods left wondering how we can make sure we build on all the expertise that the Primaries are imparting to their pupils. How about next year (or sooner?!) setting up a pledging system so that we can arrange to visit each other's schools and share all this good practice, not just on one day? Comment of the day: "It's the WorldWideWORK" - I really like that one! Thanks for all the efforts and organisation Steve et al. It was really good to get out and visit other schools - we never get to do this at other times and I learned lots from seeing how Thomas Adams’s ICT dept is organised. HAve already nicked and used their google docs file for my Y11 BCS this morning - thanks, Max!

Ewan’s speech was inspirational, but the Primary School pupils’ input was even more so… all the Secondary bods left wondering how we can make sure we build on all the expertise that the Primaries are imparting to their pupils. How about next year (or sooner?!) setting up a pledging system so that we can arrange to visit each other’s schools and share all this good practice, not just on one day?

Comment of the day: “It’s the WorldWideWORK” - I really like that one!

]]> By: James Watson http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/03/30/conference-initial-reactions-keynote/#comment-24654 James Watson Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:02:20 +0000 http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2007/03/30/conference-initial-reactions-keynote/#comment-24654 Thanks Steve for inviting Ewan to come and speak - it was equally inspirational for those of us in the corporate world working to provide quality resources to help schools collaborate and communicate over the web. By the way, we too have started a blog about Podium - at http://www.podiumpodcasting.com/blog/ - and will undoubtedly be doing our learning in public too as Ewan discussed yesterday! Thanks Steve for inviting Ewan to come and speak - it was equally inspirational for those of us in the corporate world working to provide quality resources to help schools collaborate and communicate over the web.

By the way, we too have started a blog about Podium - at http://www.podiumpodcasting.com/blog/ - and will undoubtedly be doing our learning in public too as Ewan discussed yesterday!

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