12.18Dress the Snowman
A quick plug for my rather festive drag and drop activity to Dress the Snowman. I also produced a Xmas Matching Pairs game.
Thanks to the NAACE mailing list yesterday I was made aware of some more research into IWB’s being undertaken by Cambridgeshire County Council into the use of IWB’s in the Primary Classroom. Only the first phase has been carried out yet, looking at the patterns of interactions when the teacher is leading sections of the [...]
12.18A real world desktop
A colleague shared this link to Bumptop with me last night (thanks Paul!). It’s a ”real world’ desktop interface where you can spread files around on a 3d desktop environment that models how we spread files around on our real desks. It’s an interesting idea, and with the lassooing and gestures I could see this [...]
12.11Clipbank
As well as being an Interactive Whiteboard trainer for Smart/Steljes I also train for other educational companies. One of those is Espresso, which for those that don’t know is an excellent library of video clips, news articles and Flash activities for Primary Schools. I have been training for them for about 18months and I love [...]
If you haven’t already been there, you can access videos from Teachers TV via the magic of the Internet. I must admit it is somewhere I keep forgetting to access but it has a wealth of ideas for teachers. If you do a search for Whiteboards you will get a whole host of programmes that [...]
The Smart Activity Toolkit has been available in Beta for a while now, but I am constantly meeting people who haven’t heard of it. For those who haven’t seen it, its a bank of Flash-based widgets that are placed in your Smart Gallery. These widgets can be dragged onto your Smart Notebook page and then [...]
12.08The Elements Song
Well, if I am going to be posting a blog about Interactive Whiteboards I had better post one of my favourite resources ever. I show this resource whenever I do a Science IWB training day to teachers. I never get sick of it. It uses the Tom Lehrer ”Periodic Table” tune, but has a very [...]
It’s interesting to see that Becta are trying to revive their drive to get a common whiteboard format. You can see the call for consultation here. I seem to remember them trying this a few years back with the launch of the National Whiteboard Network, but they couldn’t get the ‘Big 2′ of Smart and [...]
Sounds like Smart are revamping their community areas with the launch of Smart Exchange. I always found that this was something Promethean always did better with their Promethean World / Promethean Planet sites.. The official Smart community always felt a little nebulous and the edcompass forum felt rather empty the few times I popped in [...]
Save embedded video files from video-hosting servers such as YouTube. This is very useful for those schools that block access to YouTube and prevent you showing some of the great video clips for use in education. You can download the video downloader here: Videos are saved in the .flv Flash Video format and can be [...]