via bbc.co.uk Whoops! Seems like smartphone tennis at the moment with the negative stories!
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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!!
This web page is a nice one stop shop for all of the BBC’s podcasts. Check it here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/digitalp
This debate has really got me thinking. What is the purpose of education? I have been lucky to have become a father twice over in the last two (and a bit) years and that, coupled with some life changing experiences, such as seeing young refugees being taught at the Cowandilla…
This lovely little online application does what it says on the tin. Featuring a chat room, ability to make notes and collaborate online in a quick and easy fashion, I’m really liking this app. Try one I made here http://corkboard.me/p6JLuUNg6V – I’ve made a short ‘how to’ video which can be viewed…
Mark introduced Scribd and The Little Book of ICT Ideas he has published using this. In addition, he talked about an alternative to wordle – www.tagxedo.com. Words can be uploaded online and moved into shapes, words are made bigger according to importance. Why not copy and paste a topic’s key…
Peter talked about www.geocaching.com which can guide you to ‘tupperware’ boxes around the country within which visitor books can be found as well as ‘missions’ and messages. People can find these boxes, sign the visitor’s books and transport the travel books along the journey. He described this process as ‘IT…
Sally talked about how Google maps can aid classroom learning through the use of ‘My Maps’ – individualising maps with icons which have tasks linked to them, allowing to track historical events for example and giving students access to plot their own maps and contribute to a whole class project/activity….
Andy spoke about how we can connect the analogue and digital world together through publishing (sharing student work with a wider audience) and celebrating what has been achieved. Can we capture the analogue world through a digital format? Scan their work and produce a digital format: Blockposters.com, Rasterbator, PosterIT Written stories, artwork can…
Tom spoke about how students can set their own learning outcomes through the teacher creating a Google Form and students responding, very quick and simple to set up – all working through real time which means students can watch updates happening right away on the class board (particularly useful for…
Andy introduced Stream2School (who have donated a kindle for a prize draw at Clevedon’s TeachMeet), which schools can install with the aim of ‘renting’ the software rather than purchasing it, reducing costs dramatically and encouraging innovation. The range of software is large and can be trialled by schools. www.stream2school.com
Chris explained how Twitter can used to promote independent learning with sixth formers, in and out of lesson. The idea is that students are using their own tools for learning purposes. The teacher sets up a school only account and discussions take place on learning related topics – hash tags…
Paolo described how the Battleship activity can be used as a starter and during peer/self assessment. A grid with numbers and headings is shown to class, students asked to choose a number and report on the combination. If correct they ‘win’ that number. A fun activity which students enjoy to…
Donna Hay introduced a range of tools which can be used as starters or small activities within the lesson. Visuwords – online graphical dictionary showing derivatives of keywords. A fantastic mindmap connection layout all linking to just one word. Solvr – a way of getting students to collaboratively solve problems….
Julia talked about class blogs using www.jogtheweb.com. The opportunity for students to have 24/7 access to the blog site and can add what they wish – however all content can be moderated. The website can also be used as a just for information blog – useful to record photos of…
Sally talked about how kindles have been used successfully within the classroom – use of PDFs and ability to search for key words, particularly useful for revising key facts in any subject. She told how they were easy to access and the students enjoyed using them. She also added that…
Mark welcomed everyone to Clevedon’s TeachMeet and thanked all who have contributed to the running of the evening.
Hi, I’m Amy and I am reporting live from Clevedon’s TeachMeet tonight!
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