The Foundry Blog

Quick tips for staying in control Being organised and in control on the computer has become the new ‘must have’ classroom management skill. In this post, I’m going to share...

Table of Contents Introduction Over the last year there’s been a sudden need for many of us to produce digital materials to plug the gaps in our teaching programmes that...

In previous posts I talked about our experience of running a large online course over the summer with over 2000 students. To create content and provide tech support for such...

In my previous post I gave an introduction to the tool H5P and showed some examples of how we’ve used it on various courses. I wanted to explain in a...

This is the first in a series of blog posts looking at specific tools that can be used to create digital content of various kinds.  Many of us are likely...

Ok, this is my final post outlining what we’ve learnt about online learning over the last few months running several courses for over 2000 students. You can also read part...

In my previous post I listed some of the things we’ve learnt during the summer running an online course for over 2000 students. It was getting rather long so I...

The last 5 months or so have been a massive test of our centre’s ability to move courses online and train teachers to deliver ‘live’ remote lessons to students. For...

A few weeks before the summer holidays started, my son’s secondary school decided they wanted to deliver some of their lessons ‘live’ online. It was a slightly odd decision given...