Conferences and Books

Conferences, appearances and writing that Maggie has been involved in since the company has started. More will appear here soon. Every opportunity has been great fun. Each opportunity has developed my learning further.

The BETT show in 2014. I was part of an ‘Ask the Expert’ group for NAACE

Published an article in the online Magazine ‘Innovate My School’

Appeared at the Practical Pedagogy conference in Toulouse 2015

Contributed to this book ‘Primary Computing in Action’ Copies can be purchased at John Catt

Publishing http://www.johncattbookshop.com/primary-computing-in-action

Up coming Attendance at Roehampton’s festival of Computing on 17th June 2016. Booking is available at the link below

here http://estore.roehampton.ac.uk/browse/extra_info.asp?compid=1&modid=2&deptid=164&catid=199&prodid=246

Original flying can be downloaded below

conference flyer final

Roamer visits Russia

Feedback

The course was good for providing creative and practical strategies and is very helpful in defining and evaluating the role of an ICT coordinator."

Richard, ICT Coordinator

Went to Technology To Teach's course on developing self-confidence not knowing what to expect at all. I was very impressed! She turned a roomful of awkward young people (myself DEFINITELY included!) into a group of warm acquaintances, laughing and joking, sharing experiences and ideas. It was quite an innovative form of teaching, compared to what I've previously experienced - focusing on IT communication solutions, visual aids and good old fashioned discussion. After every session I went home with a spring in my step, and a smile on my face. Also, I've since successfully done a presentation to thirty business people and government executives! If you have the opportunity to work with Maggie, take it up - so, so worthwhile.

Rhian - course attendee

This course opened pathways into science that I never realised were there. One activity on the course involved fruit. We had to make a list of adjectives on what we could see, not touch or taste. This was a perfect example of how to begin an investigation in the classroom; start with the visual aspect and then move onto other senses/experiences to build on, evaluate and cement our first thoughts/findings. I have applied this approach in the classroom (reception class) while teaching about minibeasts: we started by reading a book about spiders; described the spider in the book; looked at and discussed a picture of a real spider; talked about what spiders can do and how they do it; went outside to try and capture a spider discussing where they might live; finally caught one and the children intuitively went to find food and made a habitat for it in the container; took the spider into the classroom and are now studying his behaviour and appearance first-hand. This in depth investigative process took little time to prepare and deliver. It also helped the children to overcome their fear of spiders and helped adjust their preconceptions. The course definitely challenged my thinking about science and has made it a much more enjoyable experience for the children I teach and for me. For them it's fun, informative and hands-on, they cant believe that it's actually a lesson. The outcomes and observations produced are outstanding. I can't believe the amount of information they could absorb in such a little amount of time.

Peter Farmer ~ Reception Teacher CIS Moscow

An outstanding course leader who provided good insight and practical teaching strategies, she also provided lots of cross-curricular ideas too."

Newly Qualified Teacher, Primary Academy

Course leader was outstanding – providing practical strategies and creative ideas."

Year Two Teacher

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