Show My Homework: Archive

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Nov 7th

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Awesome Article Featuring Show My Homework →

Oct 22nd

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How do you get Outstanding Outcomes for Homework?

One of the key findings from Ofsted inspections show time and time again the impact, consistency, clarity and routines have on students. Our readers are made up largely of senior leaders and middle managers, so this won’t be ground breaking information in the first instance but what I’m about to tell you will certainly help you improve homework and get support from parents. As an...

Oct 1st

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Are you responsible for IT at school? Where will...

When I joined Henry Compton school as the E-learning Director, one of my first jobs was to roll out Fronter, the London Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) of choice, and get everyone engaged to use it. Now there is no denying that Fronter is packed full of features, but Fronter is just one example of software and technology recommended to teachers by government officials and consultants who have...

Jul 27th

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Where is my child's homework?

Does this sound familar? This was a question I was often asked at Parents’ Evening. It’s natural, parents really want to know when homework is set so they can ensure the homework gets done and they can join in with their child’s school life. If a child is going through a parent-rejection stage, that child may well not want to co-operate and so may give no or misleading...

Jun 21st

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O2 Rewards for Teachers

O2 wants to help connect people to great teaching. They’re building a video library of great revision lessons, from teachers across the country. If you’re a teacher: film your best revision lesson, upload it to the site and share it with Britain’s biggest classroom. You’ll be in with a chance to win some great awards! If you’re a student: watch the videos, rate them...

Apr 26th

Feb 10th

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Your Alternative VLE to Fronter!

Dear colleague, Would you consider an alternative to Fronter? Show My Homework provides a simple VLE where teachers can post homework questions, attach worksheets, set deadlines and assess work online. Since Feb 2010 over 300 schools have installed Show My Homework painlessly. In the current economic climate it is worth looking at alternative solutions. Show My Homework is £4,000 less than...

Jan 4th

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This Week is Anti Bullying Week!

This week is national anti bullying week! There are lots of good resources on the web. Below are some websites and videos you may wish to use during class and tutor time. Sites http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/ - official site www.cybermentors.org.uk - ‘The CyberMentors website uses a social networking model to allow young people at different levels to mentor each other.’ Very good...

Nov 16th

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Nothing Like Twitter for Teachers

I have to admit, when I first signed up to Twitter, I was not expecting how useful or amazing it would turn out to be! Twitter has allowed me to introduce http://www.showmyhomework.co.uk to hundreds of new teachers from around the world. Before Twitter, I was getting disheartened trying to reach out to teachers about Show My Homework. I tried calling schools, leaving voice messages, writing...

Nov 14th

30 Quick Tips to be a Better Teacher

Give students respect at all times. Listen, listen, and listen. Be approachable and friendly. Make the boundaries clear as crystal. Show empathy. Let students know their opinions are valued. If you say you’re going to do something, make sure you do it and follow up. Make lessons hands on and practical. Make use of all the data you have available for planning lessons. Make time...

Nov 11th

Tuition Fees in Twitter Trends →

Brilliant page from Google showing Twitter trends about the Tuition Fees which is everywhere at the moment… @showmyhomework

Nov 11th

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Watch this short tutorial showing how to use Show My Homework

Sep 3rd

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93% Success - Well Done Year 11

I’ve been meaning to share the success we have had at Henry Compton via a blog post but have not had a chance to get around to it sooner, so here goes! This year results for BTEC ICT have jumped to 93% from 89% last year. I am really happy and my team have worked super hard! We continue to raise the bar every year. When I am teaching I often talk to students about it being a journey we all...

Sep 2nd

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Summer Holidays

The summer holidays have kicked off and I’m really excited about the next few months ahead for myself and Show My Homework. Since I last wrote a full blog post, Twitter have reached 20 billion tweets, My school, Henry Compton had an OfSTED inspection during the last week of July and got rated “Good” with Outstanding “Features”. I recently celebrated my one year...

Aug 2nd

New Premium Feature Feedback - Submit Homework...

New Premium Feature - Submit Homework Online

Jul 29th

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Show My Homework in TES

Show My Homework in Times Education Supplement (TES)

Jun 14th

Jun 2nd

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The End of BECTA? Good News? Quite Possibly...

I’ve been meaning to put my thoughts on this for the last week now, just haven’t had a chance to get round to it. The new government have decided to shut BECTA. Is this is a good idea? bad idea? should they have done this sooner? Personally I think so. When I found out the annual budget was over £100 million + I was shocked and surprised. I’ve been teaching for the last 3-4 years...

May 31st

A few homework tips to share →

A few homework tips to share with students

Apr 23rd

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Have you ever forgot to collect homework?

I’ll be the first one to admit, I’ve forgotten to collect homework in the past. One of the neat things Show My Homework does, is send you a morning email reminder to let you know you have homework to collect for each of your classes. For me this really helps as I’m sure like many of you, there are lots of other things going on and it’s quite easy to forget. ...

Apr 22nd

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Use Show My Homework For Students Currently At...

Show My Homework is a brilliant tool to use right now if your school has been effected by the Icelandic Volcano. At Henry Compton, we have a number of staff out at the moment and have had to send certain year groups home. To provide home education teachers at my school are using Show My Homework more than ever and it’s been a big hit with parents. Visit the Henry Compton School website to...

Apr 21st

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Year Group and Subject filters are down...

We are experiencing a small glitch at the moment with the Year Group and Subject filters. Rest assured your Show My Homework heroes are working on it! I will update this as soon as the issue is fixed! Thanks Update: Fixed and working as usual :-) about 6 hours ago! Many Thanks

Apr 19th

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I can't find my subject...

Over the past few hours, I’ve had some users let me know about subjects missing from the subject field when posting new homework. If there is any subject missing, drop me an email at help@Showmyhomework.co.uk and I’ll do my best to add it to the list asap. Why can’t I add my own subjects? For the moment, I want to control the quality of subjects we have in Show My Homework, as...

Apr 18th

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Post homework questions, upload worksheets and set deadlines for students in 60 seconds!

Apr 16th

Parents struggle to help their child with homework →

A recent article published in the Teaching News from a BECTA commissioned report highlights why many parents struggle to help their child with homework.

Apr 16th

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What does Beta mean?

It’s worth pointing out that Show My Homework is still in public Beta. That essentially means we’re still adding the final touches and tweaking it before we can really say, this is the final thing. I normally think of it as a Ferrari that is close to coming out of the factory with just a few things to do like polish it off and add the legendary badge :-).

Apr 16th

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We've just launched in Beta with a new look!

Welcome to the Show My Homework Blog. My name is Naimish Gohil and I am delighted to be writing our first blog post! I’ve been working on Show My Homework over the last 9 months. It’s been a thrilling ride so far and it’s about to get even more exciting as more and more people start to discover Show My Homework. I’m actually a teacher working full-time at Henry Compton...

Apr 15th