I hear many stories of how Digital Brain, Fronter, MS Class Server etc have been introduced into schools by the LEA or RBC, then after some initial training, left to rot. Why is this? A lot of thought, and money, has gone into making these systems suitable for school use. Surely they can’t be that…

James was ribbing me a few weeks back, about not having comments on this blog. So….comments there are! But more than that. Nataly (who programs this site) has applied the same structure to the resource records in the main site, and extended the reviews section so that you can add your own review. There’s even…

How would you teach, if you had one of these?

I’ve said before how impressed I am with Edublogs. Perhaps I should have been a little less fulsome because James called me to put my money where my mouth is when he outgrew his old server. The result of that conversation is that Chalkface is now the proud sponsor of Edublogs. James has slightly jumped…

In a previous career, I used to write quizzes for teenage magazines, so when Valentine’s day came around, I couldn’t resist doing an online one. It’s in the Freebies section if you’ve not already seen it. Miranda claims it’s trashy, and she’s probably right. But it’s fun. Writing for magazines, I never knew how my…