Free Classroom Management Resources

I have just finished of some classroom management resources, that I have uploaded to my website
http://www.a6training.co.uk/resources_class_management.php
These include mechanisms to randomly split up a class of students into a smaller group, how to manage more complex group options, and finally a simple tool to create bingo activities.

Why am I eating my breakfast out of a kids plastic bowl?

My 18 month old son, has taken a liking to helping unload the dishwasher – which is great and something that we are all for encouraging, but he is only 18 months and we are breaking a few too many bowl and glasses. My 3 year old son is “…a big boy now” and therefore [...]

PowerPoint training at Gateway College

Spent the afternoon at Gateway College, where I was running some PowerPoint training for the ILT Coaches that they have recently appointed.  Session went well, with lots of new skills being learnt, and of course using some of the resources from my website
http://www.a6training.co.uk/resources_powerpoint.php

Mind genius has just got cheaper

I love Mind Genius, and use it for all sorts of things from planning, to presenting, to time management.  If an organisation has a licence for it, then it doesn’t allow you to take a copy home, however it isn’t that expensive to have a copy at home anyway, but at the moment they are [...]

MoLeNET event in London

Been in London all day (at the Oval – which is great for a cricket fan like me), at the MoLeNET event. Saw some very impressive uses of mobile learning that colleges around the country have been doing, as well as attending a presentation where someone had used one of my PowerPoint timers (www.a6training.co.uk/resources.php) in [...]

Turning down of work

Today was a a very weird day for me. I was offered a job that was worth the equivalent of over £40,000 per annum and I turned it down.  The job would have been project managing the setting up of an e-learning project to support kids who have been excluded from school in the Sheffield [...]

Asknerd.net

Please read the comments for this post before, following my advice with this posting. It turns out that asknerd.net isn’t as good as I thought! In fact this site should be avoided at all costs, as is in my opinion appears to be a very professional scam. I am leaving the original post in italics [...]

Posting to a blog from FaceBook

This entry is testing the facility that allows me to post to my WordPress Blog from facebook!

WordPress and FaceBook

Just had a go at adding the WordPress application to my FaceBook account – now if I have got this right, then this message should appear on FaceBook….

Mind Genius Training

This morning I was back at my previous employer (University of Derby) – running some Mind Genius session as part of their ‘Get Ahead Event’ – Mind Genius is one of my favourite tools, and one that I love running training sessions on. The ‘Get Ahead Event’ is something that the University runs every year, [...]