Adventures in Teaching and Learning

I’m just back from a lovely dinner celebrating the work of the Transformation Teachers’ Programme so far. It’s always lovely to meet up with other teachers, and to share ideas and enthuse one another. There were a couple of informative talks, by John D’Abbro and Dr Baldev Singh. I was particularly struck by Dr Singh’s talk, partly because he began with a Wordle that I guessed must have come from our own information about the course. (Sorry if I got carried away at that point everyone!!) I have just realised that he got his PhD from a fantastic university: St Andrews. He describes himself as “just a teacher who is having fun“, which I think completely sums up my view of using Web 2.0 and new technologies in the classroom as well – a kindred spirit therefore!

The food was good too, and even though I lost my game of mindball, and could not manage to complete the Wii guitar thing, this was a very enjoyable event. Lovely to see so many people there!