Your students type a lot, but I’ll lay odds that they type badly. Prompted by internet guru Seth Godin‘s blog, I’m going to reprise an argument I had with Mark Leighton a while ago, about why it’s vital to teach them to type properly. Here, paraphrased, are Mark’s arguments as to why he didn’t need…

I actually wrote this a week ago whilst I was in Ukraine, and then discovered I’d failed to bring my password file. Sadly, the promise of worldwide access isn’t completely idiot-proof. Geography author Paul Laird invited Alex (our CTO) me up to Huntcliff School last week to help launch the Redcar & Cleveland Gifted and…

Patricia Donaghy has been kind enough to add me to the International Edubloggers Directory. I feel all growed up.

So it’s bye-bye BBC Jam, or at least au-revoir. If you have not been following this story, BBC Jam was the renamed BBC Digital Curriculum, which aimed to produce high quality online learning materials for up to half the English curriculum. It has now been suspended following some legal argy-bargy. Plenty of pundits have weighed…

My thanks to the software team for looking after me in Kharkov so well last week. I was there to lay the groundwork for some really exciting new features we have planned for Yacapaca; not stuff I can talk about yet. What I can talk about is the beautiful Pokrovsky Cathedral (photo); largely restored since…