All my posts (normally writing by Mrs Amy Smart) related to TeachMeet Clevedon. A bi-annual Learning & Teaching event bringing together educators from all sectors to pass on their top tips related to successful pedagogy in their classrooms.
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…
So you want to hold a TeachMeet event? I’ve organised two events and whilst I’m not old hat at this, I certainly learnt from chatting with, observing and discussing how to run events with other organisers from around the UK and beyond. Recently a number of people have asked…
Please feel free to have a butchers at my presentation from TeachMeet. 30 iPad apps to engage and inspire Open publication – Free publishing – More ipads http://bit.ly/30ipadapps
Here’s how it all went down username date status ICTEvangelist 24/06/2011 RT @AmyG2191: @ICTEvangelist loved the 100 word challenge 4 classes and tutor group! #tmclevedon ICTEvangelist 23/06/2011 #teamclevedon – some photos from tonight now on Facebook – due some more from Zoe so will add those too. Thank u @teresatickoo…
30 apps in 7 minutesGaragebandPhotoshop express DJ mixerVirtuosoRebirthPrezi viewerDragon DictationQwikiGoogle EarthTwitterIplayerImdbBBC newsFood tech gamesYouTubeKindleiBooksPhotoboothColoureffectsAurasmaTime 2Ted talksGroovemakerLoopJClassicalGuardian eyewitness photosRj voyagerTap the frogiMovie
Reading – lots of free books! Buying is cheaper too.Definitions – will pop up at top of the screen. Encourages learning of new words.Built in dictionaryText-to-speech – kindle will read out book to you.Revision Guides Instead of a Textbook – make your ownStoring Research – convert word files to PDF…
