Mr Walker and I enjoyed a trip to Weser School, in Hameln.
I say Mr Walker and I because I thought it was appropriate that Mr Walker, my flute walking stick, should join me in my travels to Hameln, or Hamelin (in English) because it is so famous for the legend of the Pied Piper.
What is the [...]

“I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by”.
Douglas Adams (Esteemed English humorist & science fiction novelist)
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“It is raining cats and dogs here, so much so that I just stepped in a cliché”.     
Geoff Staines, (A steamed Cousin!)

Random over hearings and thoughts after a surreal afternoon:  

Sign in baker’s window: cakes [...]

A great day at Sir John Mogg School,  Detmold, one of the SCE schools in Germany.

Not all changes in technology are advances!
However, one of the best elements of today was the fact that the school hall had a back-lit projection screen. Not remarkable technology but a great use of an image.
In other words, the projector [...]

I am so looking forward to another week working for the Service Children’s Education team, this time in Germany.
Three days of “demo lessons” and then a training day with staff from the three schools: Lister school in Herford, Sir John Mogg School,  Detmold, and Weser School, in Hameln.
Today, at Lister school we started with a huge group of 60+ [...]

My final day in beautiful Aberdeenshire, a gentle ‘Myst’ hanging in the air as I arrived at St Andrew’s School in Inverurie.
I had a marvellous, moving and magical experience working with groups of young people who I feel honoured to have met. Everyone was learning from each other as we travelled to the top of [...]

Another day in another new Aberdeenshire primary school at Hill of Banchory. 
Blog Scribing by Alison Butcher today. 
“I could do with some of Tim’s class to help make my writing more descriptive! 
I first heard Tim speak at SETT in Glasgow in 2005 and had never been so inspired at a seminar.  I tried Myst with my class soon after.  In [...]

A second superb day in an Aberdeenshire primary school. This time, at Rothienorman school.
Caroline Denning, ICT Project Officer is going to tell you all about our day.
“What a fantastic day! All of the delegates at our session were totally inspired and motivated by Tim in the first session of the day.  He showed us some of [...]

Back to Meldrum Academy again today, this time to work with staff from local secondary schools and some S2 pupils. Great fun!

I was asked for suggestions of other games that might act as a stimulus in different contexts. Here are some comments from “Stal_king Ven_us” on Ikariam. I agree whole heartedly. But my communities are [...]

I was honoured to be asked to give a keynote presentation at the Aberdeenshire ICT Conference today. I have enjoyed working with the Aberdeenshire team before.
Today was the start of a week back up in the county working with a variety of schools, from primary and secondary through to a special school context.
Aberdeenshire carried out [...]