Having reinstalled my webcam to show pupils demos on the projector, it failed again this week with my Higher class. It was working perfectly as they were coming into the room, I told them what we'd be doing and asked them to get their jotters out whilst I did the register. No sooner did I...

Almost without exception, everytime I tried to use a bit of technology last week it went wrong. S1 Science revsion using Web sites - links disappeared or wouldn't work for one class, internet connection died for the other class S5 Physics using flexi cam to show how to connect circuit - camera died, wanted the software to...

I tried a small ICT exercise with my S2 science class last week - producing a simple data sheet for a given chemical element. With an unusually high rate of successful first log-in attempts (16 out of 17), we got off to a flying start. The pupils were given a good staring place for information (www.webelements.com) and...