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