Mark Anderson

Puppet Pals HDPut in your own backgrounds and characters and create animations for plenaries, covering the topic from the lesson. Great fun !

Scratch softwareAnimation type programme - creating animation through code. Appealing to students, very colourful. Blocks of code can be dragged and dropped. Useful for teaching logic, maths, storytelling. Completely free and lots of support for users and students.

A few ideas for the classroomGoogle sites - creating websitesOnline jigsaws - can import any image and things can be dragged into place. Great for starters!World news site - picks out today's world news from a variety of different sites. What is important news for each country?Google-a-day - gives a…

Virtual presentation of 7 ideas in 7 minutes1 primaryschool.com/avatars - make your own characters2 isle of tune - creating music through cars moving on a road around obstacles3 physicsgames.net 4 wordsearchmaker.net5 ideas to inspire - a range of ideas shared, interesting ways to use hardware and software6 under ten minutes.com7…

Gifted and TalentedDon't be up the front as a teacher... Get the students in charge of their lessons. Thinking about how they learn and the language of learning.Getting students to believe in themselves. Getting gifted and talented to work harder too. It's good to make mistakes, try the harder stuff…

Maths Memory Game - you can write in your own facts! Great for revision on any topic or subject!

Dimensions websiteGoogle - how big really. Shows different events based on your area. E.g oil spills, floods, space, war on terror, all based on your area.

Home learning on Twitter - hash tags for each year group. Excellent for parents, being able to check what is set. Sharing information on field trips.Revision tips and advice for Year 11.Twitter with discussions in class using hash tags. Linking in sites... Gets others joining in, making conversation more meaningful.Being…

Creating objects by adding material. Accessible machines for schools when considering price. Mechanical parts can be made as well as DT based projects by students, products and prototypes, mathematical models, iPhone stands, iPhone sat nav holders for bikes (gcse project). http://rapman-education.posterous.com/

Zoe Elder introduced Matthew McFall as an 'agent of wonder'.Matthew spoke about how you can connect wonder and learning. We need to ask our students what makes them wonder... Matthew has recently been working on learning with teachers, focusing on modular learning through a maze. Important that something could work…