David Rogers

To me, the view from Snowdon’s summit as the sun sets is inspiring, especially when the only other person on this honeypot peak was my brother whose 30th birthday it was.  I find it hard to think of being inspiring to anyone, but I had a great chat with Kelly Long a little while ago about my thoughts around technology, particularly mobile devices.  I hope you enjoy the episode and check out the other great educators on the Inspiration 4 Teachers podcast which is a great resource.

Fantastic to hear today that the Mobile @ Priory project has received recognition by being shortlisted for an Education Innovation Award.  Thank you to all of those that made it all possible. To read about the project, visit this post .

Bett learn live 2013 s sh from David Rogers It’s been two years since we began the journey of creating a mobile device policy at Priory School. It was great to share the story with those who came along to see the Learn Live session at BETT on Friday.  This post is a collation of resources.  Above the presentation.  The main points are obvious from the slides, although do get in touch if you’d like to know more or would like to to work with your school or organisation. Below are two documents, the Mobile @ Priory Cookbook and the policy itself in one of the draft versions. Open publication - Free publishing - More cookbook Open publication - Free publishing - More byod

At a consultation meeting this week concerning our conversion to academy status something that the visiting Headteacher, who was speaking, said struck a chord.  What he said was along the lines of: “My job as a Headteacher for the past 11 years has been to subvert schemes and national initiatives, and the money that comes with it, for good and good is better learning” It resonated with me as for the past five years, I’ve subverted funding from projects to enable wider changes to take place.  It’s amazing how much impact a small grant aimed at helping a select bunch of students can do for a whole department.  For example: The Olympic Geocaching project (250 students and on-going), Blogging from a field (250 students and on-going), Mobile @ Priory and it’s cookbook of teaching and learning ideas (1,250 students and on-going as well as other schools), and Our BYOD mobile policy . These projects all started with a narrow aim, but ended up hav...