The next issue of my newsletter, Digital Education, will be available soon. It contains articles on AI, smartphones, Calvino and more.
Read MoreA new newsletter from me
My public writing tends to be mostly about education technology, and the craft of nonfiction writing. My interests are more varied than that brief description would suggest, but to avoid muddying the waters I either attempt to skew an article so that it fits into one of those categories, or not publish it at all. But now that has changed…
Read MoreOfsted, National Curriculum and other edtech stuff
This newsletter, from 2001, demonstrates four main things….
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DigEd xmas, by Terry Freedman
Coming soon: Digital Education Christmas 2021
Coming soon (probably tomorrow, 21st December 2021), a bumper small edition of my esteemed newsletter. It contains some interesting stuff, including advanced notice of a fantastic prize draw in which you can win a ‘credit card'-sized microprocessor that allows you to create projects and then download them to the device. It includes 25 LEDs and a sounder allowing you to create music.
Read MoreDid you know Google was a search engine, preparing for Bett 2001, plus guidance that has stood the test of time
Back in the year 2001 Google was still very much the new-ish kid on the block.
Read MoreWhat should a newsletter contain?
What are the attributes of a good newsletter, and what should it contain? The list in this article will, hopefully, give you some ideas.
Read MoreWhat should a customer newsletter contain?
Once a school buys your product or service, a newsletter is a great way of keeping them informed of new developments. In this article, we look at what kind of content works well.
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The ICT in Education website, 2000, by Terry Freedman.
There's nothing new about snowflakes
My first reaction when I see people ranting about some trivial thing on social media is to envy them for apparently having nothing terrible to worry about.
Read MoreWhat should your organisation's newsletter contain?
I wrote this article for a readership of edtech companies. But the suggestions would work just as well for any organisation that wishes to keep in touch with its members/clients/visitors etc.
Read MoreThe state of information and communications technology in the year 2000
Apart from the name change, are things any different now?
Read MoreInformation Technology in schools in the year 2000
Is this still the case: “The popular image of the ICT Co-ordinator is still, I think, that of a man with a beard, and a top pocket bulging with pens, screwdrivers, and bits of integrated circuit boards.”?
Read MoreWhy do IT?
Might an article and a challenge from the year 2000 be relevant to ed tech co-ordinators now
Read MoreFirewall foibles, and how I survived them (Updated)
It was when my wireless router told me that there was no printer on the network that I finally flipped.
Terry’s desk, by Terry Freedman
Notes from the desktop: a prize draw, a damaged elbow and a conference -- oh, and posts about podcasts
Here are 4 useful bits of news. Topics covered: a forthcoming prize draw, podcast posts, a great-looking conference and my elbow.
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Picture by Tumisu on Pixabay. Licence: CC0
The Digital Education newsletter: transfer completed!
The new iteration of my newsletter, Digital Education, is now up and running. If you're a subscriber, and you missed my last couple of emails, read on.
Read MoreAll change for Digital Education
Important news for subscribers to my newsletter, Digital Education
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Out with the old, in with the new
2017 Retrospective: coming soon in Digital Education
I've been compiling a retrospective in the form of articles from the Digital Education newsletter in 2017. Here's the list of articles included.
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In the next issue of Digital Education...
What's coming up in the next issue of Digital Education.
Read MoreTeaching computing, assessing computing, and a lot more
I'm on the final proof-reading stages of the latest issue of Digital Education. It's a free newsletter for people with a professional interest in ICT and Computing in education, ed tech, digital skills etc. This issue includes an article by William Lau on the 5 mistakes he made when teaching Computing, and an article by Sam Hunter on the ladders approach to assessing Computing.
For more information on what the new issue contains, read on.
Read MoreMy funky new newsletter button
I decided to change the sign-up button for my newsletter, Digital Education. Why? Why not? This is what it looks like now: