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Quad blogging – an opportunity for class blogs to get up and running by providing you with an audience, linking you with 3 other blogs (school). Each school takes it in turn to blog, 1 school each week. You can link with the types of class you wish by signing…
David talked about a SoL called the Learning Loop which has been created at Priory Community School in Weston-Super-Mare. He added that we want students to think but this can be very hard at times. In order to perform complex tasks we use memory and therefore, students need to learn…
Alessio spoke about how imindmap 5 can create attractive mindmaps which allow creativity within the classroom as well as incorporating images into diagrams as well as text. Plus audio attachments means that the software suddenly opens up to a whole new variety of subjects to this style of presenting –…
The lovely Kat Crocker spoke about rocketing up your tutor group. She spoke about top tips for tutor time and things that have worked well at Clevedon School… – go vertical – give them jobs to do – get organised by tracking students carefully – plan your time together, quality…
Ian presented a virtual Teachmeet presentation with a variety of ideas… Manga High – free. You can upload users and students can play different games to accumulate scores. Challenges can be set for the class, students can play other schools and a personal login for your school means no need…
Jamie ‘virtually’ talked about in school TeachMeets to improve teaching and learning. Presentations which are 2 or 7 minutes long can take place within a meeting, turning the environment into a relaxing and stress free place and the ability to share ideas and thought easily. The length of the presentations…
Dave spoke about how everyday things can have a creative effect within the classroom: Labels in shops and supermarkets for ‘deals’ which are not extremely good being used to interest Maths students. A ruler on the spine of Ikea, using electrical tape on signs, a 21 percent sale…. Amazing pictures…
Posterous vs. Homework Noel spoke about how following how his daughter uses social networking has allowed him to learn a lot about how he can use social networking for his students. Posterous can allow you to create an online course for your subject, everything in one place! The students can…
A PE and IT teacher from John Cabot Academy from Bristol. He commented that there was so much information around that it was sometimes difficult to know how to communicate this to staff. Chris added that Posterous was a great way, and a free way, to post ideas all to…
Cody and Lewis showed a fantastic video on some ideas to use for starters. Guess your number game – a thinking game to get students’ minds thinking! http://sketch.odopod.com – create a sketch and choose a brush colour and type, you can then draw something. Concentration memory game – www.mathsisfun.com/games/memory
Gavin talked about a range of ideas, fun and easy to use in the classroom Linoit – a little bit like wall wisher but fantastic to use for starters, plenaries, reviews and communicating learning during a lesson. Inappropriate comments can be taken off easily. Available on iPad and iPhone, Popplet…
Donna is a Head of ICT at Filton. She spoke about how great QR codes are, being able to link to texts and pictures. They can be created easily using a QR code generator. Donna’s school has used this as a treasure hunt activity for Open Activity, a revision trail…
Mark spoke about Google Forms and how useful they are in the classroom for tests and surveys amongst other things. Some forms can even be marked for you! Mark advised you’d need a google account and knowledge of forms in some way. But otherwise, it was very easy. A short…
Creativity – it’s ok to take risks and not to know the answers. Andy introduced a variety of ways to create creativity in the classroom – bubbl.us, answergarden.ch you can set up a website for a specific lesson and people can comment on each others work, klowdz.com – draw what…
The more I use the iPad with learners of all ages, the more I am convinced of its validity as a way of truly engaging real opportunities for making learning interesting, relevant and fun. Pictured in the shot is my 2 year old boy who is reinforcing his learning of…
A reflection by Independent Thinking associate, former Teacher of the Year and tech-for-learning guru David Miller In June this year I was asked to go to Clevedon School near Bristol (home of the Lazy Teacher Jim Smith) to help launch their ambitious and pioneering experiment to see whether iPads, as mobile…
I’ve been asked to make a case for the use of iPads in English by a member of my PLN, @learningspy (David Didau) or more specifically, how they could be used. This could turn in to a very lengthy post if I was to write my entire case for the…
I’ve always felt very lucky to work where I do. It is a forward thinking school and the colleagues I have always give 110% to the students, as do the Governors, of which I am one. My job is a privilege and I love it. 5 years ago, our SLT…
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