Monthly Archives: January 2012

Once a British Citizen, always a Brit, despite failing the test.

As my school knows, I really enjoy preparing a good assembly. On Thursday last week, we were saying goodbye to Oskar, a bright and engaging German who has spent the last 5 months in our Year 11, improving his English … Continue reading

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Digital Learning Day – as if every day isn’t?

The onward march of 2012 is relentless – one month gone, and it is less than 5 months of teaching days before the Academic year as at an end. And in that time, we are going to celebrate a Diamond … Continue reading

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#AskGove An invitation I can’t resist

I love having Mr Gove as our Secretary of State for Education; he’s such good value, a man who always has something to say, irrespective about context and occasion.  In the blizzard of stuff emanating de Le Gove, I admire … Continue reading

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An exemplar ISANet weekly Newsletter from the Principal’s Pen

The ISANet community is 440+ educators spread across ISA schools and further afield too, with membership in the Americas, Europe, India, South East Asia and Down-under too.  It’s been important for the Association to have a voice about Digital Literacy, to inspire within, to encourage and … Continue reading

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Digital Literacy v Computer Programming

It has been really gratifying to be part of the ISANet, to help inspire and develop a national project to take schools and their communities to ‘the cloud’.  As the local paper, the Maidenhead Advertiser reports, we went live this last week … Continue reading

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A year of Blogging has passed, so what’s for the future…

Those lovely people at WordPress have summarised my first year of ‘A Princpled view’ with this annual report for the blog. Here’s an excerpt: A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 3,800 times … Continue reading

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