Chris Betcher

Amazing (adjective) astonishing, astounding, surprising, stunning, staggering, shocking, startling, stupefying, breathtaking; awesome, awe-inspiring, sensational, remarkable, spectacular, stupendous, phenomenal, extraordinary, incredible, unbelievable; informal mind-blowing, jaw-dropping Sometimes I find myself dealing with people in circumstances that are completely unconnected, but which seem to have some kind of bizarre synchronicity that causes them to mirror each other. The other day, I found myself in one of these situations... Firstly, I was asked by a colleague to help edit some video footage from a recent school trip.  I don't mind helping with such requests because I quite enjoy the process of video editing, so I attached the camera to my MacBook Pro, sucked the footage onto the hard drive and began dragging clips together in iMovie. My colleague looked on as I dragged clips around the timeline, clearly never having seen non-linear video editing before, and, with a littl...

UK blogger Terry Freedman wrote a great post on the TechLearning blog called " Oh Sir, you are too kind ". He actually wrote it a while ago now (Sept 07) but I only just stumbled across it... I guess that's one of the great things about blogs, the way they can capture someone's thoughts at a particular point in time and make them available to anyone, even people who stumble across them much later. Terry's basic premise is to ask why we keep putting up with teachers who can't or won't get to grips with ICT in their teaching. He seems to think that it's time to tell teachers that ICT is an important component of being a teacher and that if you can't, won't or don't get yourself up to speed with technology and how it should be used to integrate with student learning then it may be time to find another job. And he suggests that we are being way too nice about accepting this sort of thing, and allowing the laggards to get away with it. He...