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…
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…
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…
Ready and waiting for Teachmeet to start! Check this blog for updates!
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via klowdz.com Check this awesome inspirational site. Great for practising basic graphics skills, inspiring your mind and can easily see it being a fantastic site for starters or even plenaries. Check it out. Impressive! via @andyhutt
via ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au Really interesting look (filled with some cool resources too) about an iPad 1:1 trial in Victoria, Australia. Well worth checking!!
So I have had my teacher iPad for 2 weeks now and you’ve seen one post already. That was written during the ½ term break, without having had the ability to really discuss the apps and usability in terms of real experience with students. Having been back at school now…
Amaze Your Education Colleagues This fine academic tool was designed to assist in the writing of reports, grant applications, and other documents related to public schools. I believe that it will be particularly useful for people involved in writing reports for WASC accreditation. Amaze your colleagues with finely crafted phrases…
Introduction I am very fortunate to work in a school with a forward thinking leadership team which have me involved in an iPad project at Clevedon School where I work. Currently SLT members and some interested teachers including me have been given iPads in order to trial their use in…
Check out this website I found at studyblue.com Ok – so you love Evernote? You use it to take photos of evidence. You use it to write notes in class to keep them organised? You sync it between home, smartphone, ipad, home device etc etc? With StudyBlue, what you can…
via bbc.co.uk Have you got that technological entrepreneurial spirit?
via bbc.co.uk Whoops! Seems like smartphone tennis at the moment with the negative stories!
I was lucky to be given the opportunity to provide some training opportunities for staff at the school I work at today on some of the many different amazing tools that are out there for people to use in their lessons to inspire, engage and help focus students on the…
In this section you’ll find a collection of nursery songs from our Early Learning series Listen and Play and Playtime, both of which are currently available on iplayer and as podcasts. They’re an ideal resource to support a range of Early Years skills, whether used in a nursery environment or…
Check out this ‘data confident school toolkit’ I found at 4matrix.org The checklist which forms this toolkit lists some of the characteristics associated with the successful use of electronic data to promote school effectiveness. For each statement you are asked to decide the extent of development of current practice towards…
via bbc.co.uk Check this out – don’t you just LOVE technology??
woorank.com – everything you wanted to know about a website. via labnol.org This is brilliant! Can’t believe it! Brilliant for analysis of traffic on your site and other values. Well worth a look!
via visibletweets.com This site is pretty cool – what it does it take a keyword, searches Twitter for it and then turns it in to a nice Flash based animation – not so cool if you don’t use a device that supports Flash! Like it myself though!
via chrome.google.com This free app enables you to make fully scalable vector graphics from within your Chrome browser, for FREE! Well worth checking!
via posterous.com Loving the Bookmarklet feature within Posterous – wish I’d found it sooner! Top banana!!
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