MC Hammer famously sang, “U Can’t Touch This“.
Today felt a bit intangible, it comprised of:
- Setting up a simple discussion forum to use in registration with my tutees to find out what they enjoyed about Open Learning Week.
- Taught a lesson! (the first for a while!) – Lovely year 9s, Maths. We learnt a bit more about taking responsibility for our learning, chatted about the GCSE course, looked at ways to improve our note taking and then got started on triangles!
- Worked with a colleague on how to connect his laptop to his phone using Bluetooth. A wonderful, informal, personal, relevant piece of INSET – fun & useful!
- Brainstormed stupid ideas for an upcoming year 9 ICT lesson – you won’t believe me if I told you!
- Started to refine plans with a senior leader for an improved reporting system, for which we have a couple of meetings tomorrow tomorrow.
- Helped a subject leader find a cable and showed them how to get a projector up and running in their classroom.
- After being visited by a colleague with a problem writing their reports I used a remote desktop connection to one of our servers to restart a database service which was preventing our report writing software from working. It’s amazing what you can accomplish through a mobile phone call to a network administrator who is in a muddy field
- Quick training on using SIMS messaging for our wonderful receptionist.
- Worked with an AS student to improve one of his Applied ICT eportfolios, flashy bouncy Dreamweaver menus, yum!
- Helped a colleague find a good Google map for a course he is attending tomorrow.
- Spent a lesson with a year 12 DiDA student to help her meet a deadline for Thursday, flashy rollover images in Dreamweaver, fun!
- Ate one cheese panini and drank two cups of coffee and two cups of water.
I’m not quite sure which of those things are just being an ICT teacher, and which things fall within my job with no name – but importantly I got to enjoy them all guilt free and had a wonderful day! Not much evidence, a bit intangible, but a great day of teaching!