Who are we?

Tom BarrettTom Barrett - ICT in my Classroom

  • Teacher (6 years) currently working in Year 5
  • Priestsic Primary and Nursery School, Nottingham
  • ICT subject leader and Assistant Headteacher
  • Experience of teaching ICT from Foundation through to Year 6
  • Involved in SMARTBoard use across the curriculum since 2003 at my current school.
  • Keen interest in all things EdTech and specifically how new online tools can impact learning and current classroom practice.
  • Writing and reflecting on the use of technology in my classroom on my blog since 2006

Kristian Still (mini bio)

  • Teaching for 7 years, since my return from America.
  • Director of E-Learning at Hamble Community Sports College. (Starting January 08). Previously taught Sport and PE at a Sixth Form College in Southampton.
  • Currently developing and sharing my own professional digitial literacy skills through the National College for School Leadership (NCSL) and the Association for Learning Technology (ALT).
  • My professional focus is the implementation educational technology in a cross curricular setting.
  • Inspiring creativity in learning.

Doug Belshaw - dougbelshaw.com
Doug Belshaw

  • Teacher of History and ICT at a High Achieving Specialist School in Doncaster, England.
  • Part of Futurelab’s Teachers as Innovators programme.
  • Main interest is using new collaborative technologies for student-student, teacher-student and teacher-teacher interactions.
  • Previously blogged at teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk, now at dougbelshaw.com.
  • Director of edte.ch, an educational technology consultancy.

Lisa Stevens - ¡Vámonos!

  • trained as secondary teacher; former Head of Spanish
  • worked in Primary language teaching for last four years, currently teach Spanish at two schools to pupils aged 4-11
  • PLL and International coordinator at Whitehouse Common Primary
  • work with Birmingham LA as language coach and regularly speak at ELLRSG (and across the country when asked!) on a range of topics including using ICT to make global links and enhance PLL.
  • active TeachersTV Associate (wrote the inaugral week of blogs!) and eTwinning Ambassador.
  • very interested (and learning fast!) about technology’s role in enhancing creativity in the classroom.