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Yesterday, I learnt that the Innovative Teachers Network has been nominated and reached the shortlist for the BETT Awards 2010 *. Of course, this is great news, and especially for Kristen Weatherby and Stuart Ball who have spent the last two years getting
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For those of you who didn’t hang around to upgrade your networks, grapple with new furniture , install audio visual equipment , or enjoy the blissful student-free corridors, welcome back. What did you miss? Well, whilst your back was turned I managed
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Earlier in the week PC Pro ran an article stating that Windows 7 is “ already used on 1% of PCs ”. This was lifted from some Internet metrics measured by NetApplications. It’s easy to do – each time you visit a website, your browser tells the website
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I’ve got two daughters who think that the best things on TV are reality makeover programmes (our TV at home seems to alternate between Grand Designs and Gok’s Fashion Fix), but they didn’t get as excited as I did about our makeover project – taking the
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After a little bit of prompting, and a few requests, I’ve pulled the chapters of the “ Good Blogging Guide ” into a complete PDF booklet. You can now download the whole thing as a PDF and read it at your leisure, and share with colleagues. Chapter One
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Since last summer, when I’d somehow won the Computer Weekly “Public Sector IT Blog of the Year” award for 2008 (for the UK Schools blog ), I’d been asked to run a series of internal, and then external, workshops, and been invited to speak at others’ events
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Hopefully this is the chapter you’ll never need. So I’ll make it short! Imagine the scenario. You have been blogging for a while, and you have the support and encouragement of other people in your school/local authority. Things are looking good. What
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This isn’t a reference to litigation, or any of the legalities of blogging (for things of that flavour, read Friday’s post on a blogging code of practice ). Nope, this is about writing style. It’s about being clear and simple. The title ‘No Lawyers Please’
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On Wednesday I wrote a blog post on how to improve your blog’s position in search engines , as part of my “Good Blogging Guide” series. It was all about search engine optimisation for blogs , and gave some simple to follow strategies. My goal was to demystify
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We’re moving along now on the ‘Good Blogging Guide’, having looked at audience , objectives , and search engine optimisation for blogs . But these three areas are about things that you do. There’s another aspect that is important too – about the environment
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I think this chapter of my “Good Blogging Guide” could be a book in it’s own right – and there are plenty of books which just cover this subject - in fact, there are plenty of companies whose sole purpose is to sell you the answer to doing this. And I
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This week, instead of enjoying a trip to Seattle, I’m sitting in the UK with some free time in my diary (although not as much as I hoped, as people have moved quickly to fill it!) . The result is that I can get around to some of those “ I really want
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I have spent the afternoon and evening today at the Institute of Education in London, participating in a series of workshops about blogging practice in education – specifically in the context of schools. I had been invited to talk about my experiences
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I use a web service called StatCounter on this blog, to keep an eye on where my readers are coming from, and what they are interested in. As well as detailed stats, it also gives me interesting maps like this, which shows me where the readers are located:
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Last year I was surprised and pleased to learn that I’d somehow made it to become the Computer Weekly 2008 Public Sector blogger of the year (for this very blog). And it led to me running a few internal training sessions for Microsoft people, talking
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