Tag: computer

  • Website up and running!

    Hooray! My website is up and running again. It is amazing how much a website becomes part of one’s Psyhche, almost an extension of oneself. When it is down, I feel a little part of me is not working. Sad, but this is what we have come to in the twenty first century.

  • YouTube – What a Waste

    I spent the morning with my year five class at Whitchurch School, yesterday (notice that “my” class!). We tried to get this blog up on the whiteboard, but wordpress.com is blocked at county level – so is YouTube. Beth, the year five teacher, told me they can’t even access BBC wildlife videos. We all know…

  • Colouring-In Worksheets

    We didn’t have photocopies to colour-in when I was a lad. The teacher would draw diagrams on the blackboard and we would copy them or we would trace maps from books and draw them in or exercise books. Some smart kids had plastic templates in the shape of Great Britain and several other useful countries.…