On Friday I took part in a symposium run by BECTA on effective use of VLE technologies. It was a truly inspirational day – really, and I don’t get inspired easy. What inspired me was the level of committment and vision in the people I was talking to. We didn’t talk much about platforms...
Read more →It should have become apparent that I don’t have time to blog, let alone have time to read and write at the moment. School is crazy busy, in an exciting and opportunity filled way, and our home life is, well, full. So, if my intellect had a wish list, the following would be on...
Read more →.flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Picture.jpg, originally uploaded by ed.podesta. Sarah pops out to the shops for ten minutes, which gives me a great opportunity to hone my parenting skills. A mere 45 seconds later, this is the...
Read more →.flickr-photo { } .flickr-frame { float: left; text-align: center; margin-right: 15px; margin-bottom: 15px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Daddy by Maddy, originally uploaded by ed.podesta. Not been posting much lately, lots and lots of domestic bliss in the way of educational flimflammery. Thought I’d share this picture of me by my...
Read more →Finally, and due in no small part to the help and guidance from my Supervisor, Anna Pendry, I have finished my PGDES portfolio and handed it in. Phew! Tell you what, writing in the same house as a three week old and a three year old was, well an interesting challenge. This challenge would’ve...
Read more →Although I never met him, I was really sad when I was told of the death of Donald McIntyre former head of Cambridge University’s Faculty of Education. I’ve been reading lots of Professor McIntyre’s work for my diploma, and it was his ideas about embracing the lack of consensus between school and university viewpoints...
Read more →Meet Iris Elizabeth Podesta 6lb 12oz born 29. Sept 2007 at 21.06
Read more →It suddenly occured to me that I’d not posted what I planned to about mentors. In fact I was writing my lit. review (again!) today, and decided to look at the blog, to see what I thought about mentoring (it’s not so bad when you’re cutting and pasting from the internet, if you’re cutting...
Read more →Compounding my previous sin of "bloggony" (posting about something you’ve posted on another site), I’d like to ask for help. I’ve got a project running at school, in which three ITT students are going to spend three weeks making 9 lesson plans and resources for topics across our schemes of work. These lessons are...
Read more →Read the following in an interesting review by Andrew Marr of the iRex iLiad, which is an evocative celebration of the pleasure of reading. All my life I’ve somehow assumed that simply owning books like Tully’s, or the Stalin biography, made me a better person. Well, that didn’t work, but the instinct remains. Which made...
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