Kerry Turner

“The desktop market has entered the dark ages, and it’s going to be in the dark ages for the next 10 years…” Steve Jobs Wired Magazine. 1996 Approximately 3 years…

It’s taken a little time in the refining process, but last week we had our final Frog VLE training session before platform launch. Afterwards, we met to discuss how we…

When the iPad first came out in April 2010 (was it really just over 18 months ago?) I wasn’t blown away. Here was an Apple device (as opposed to a…

I write this without benefit of any deep research, yet with what I hope is a fair amount of practical experience, interest and wider reading. Having been a teacher for…

Blogging in Senior School on Prezi With junior schools around the country seeing enormous success from their blogging experiences, there must surely be several senior schools wondering if similar rewards…

Many of us can name at least one inspirational educator – one who taught us something new, who changed the way we viewed an event or enabled us to reconsider…

I’ve never wanted to enter the debate on the value of school textbooks. I hope I use them as they are intended; to provide guidance to the level and content…

Edutainment or Engagement? on Prezi   The ISC ICT Strategy group certainly gathered a number of excellent speakers to present at their conference in Bedford today – and no, I’m not…

Once you start something and it appears to be fun and popular, even though it seemed initially to be a novelty, it’s probably best to sustain it. I still feel that…

Digital Footprint on Prezi I thought I’d write up and embed a Prezi I’ve done for tomorrow’s school assembly on “Digital Footprints”. The reason for this is that the Prezis…

This post comes with a  huge acknowledgement to several people in my PLN – who, through constant tweeting about QR Codes, have forced me to take a look at their…

Image from the official Posterous blog I’m not really a gadget person. Actually, let me rephrase that – I do like gadgets, but I don’t like to carry more than…

I have a great respect for history teachers. As with English teaching, the amount of written work required in order to produce confident achievers in senior school exams is quite…

I’m always thrilled when I come away from a conference or meeting with the requirement to revisit some of my prior thinking and planning.  The Frog 2010 Conference did as…

“It is astonishing what a lot of odd minutes one can catch during the day, if one really sets about it.” Dinah Maria Mulock It’s not always easy to involve…

I recently recommended Write Online from Crick software to our school Learning Support co-ordinator. I’d seen it at BETT and thought it a very good product. On a global level…

The “jump” from older versions of MS Office (98 – 2003) to Office 2007 was a rather big one. Drop down menus were replaced by a tabbed ribbon, the File…

Take twelve weeks, a group of sixteen year olds, add in a course which should be relevant and free, has interesting and appropriate content, and the programme is complete. It’s not…

“Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first. “ ~ Frederick B. Wilcox This week I’ve decided to try something new with my…

And why shouldn’t he? With many educators wishing to explore the value of new technologies, our head is also keen to see whether a tool like Twitter could be effective…