IWB Delicious
Although I started this blog with the main intention to discuss Interactive Whiteboards, I would also like to use it from time to time to discuss other aspects of ICT.
I would like to have a little rant, if I may, about Facebook. Now I joined Facebook a few months back, initially with the idea that [...]
Just wanted to flag up a great initiative by Tom Barrett who has produced a presentation about whiteboards using Google Docs.
Google docs allows a number of users to collaborate on a single document over the internet, which has a great many implications for how we work and share information. You can produce text files, spreadsheets [...]
I’ve produced a new Smart Notebook file to help with balancing equations.
The atoms at the top have been infinitely cloned so you can drag down as many as you require to show how many atoms there are on both sides of the equation. The arrow and plus sign can also be cloned.
You can download the [...]
One of the highlights of the BETT exhibition for me was ShooFly. This is a small independent company, their stand was tucked away upstairs at the exhibition, but I was really impressed with the quality of their resources.
They have already won several awards, and last week also received some interesting news coverage which has helped [...]
As a former Biology teacher I am always interested in nice animations that can be used to demonstrate biological processes.
Thanks to Science Video Resources for posting this article about a nice heart animation. You can see the animation here.
Looking at the site that hosted this animation, I tracked back to the main teaching resources page. [...]
This list is based on the one originally produced by the Review Project a few years back. Sadly their website is no longer active so I will repost it here since it’s a handy list of things to consider.
1. Make sure there is plenty of space both in front and to either side of your [...]
After travelling through space for 2 and a half years, the NASA Messenger probe has now arrived around the planet Mercury and is starting to send back images of the planets surface. The NASA Messenger website looks like the place to be to see these pictures as they are processed.
The site also contains many animations [...]
Here’s a quick idea for using an interactive whiteboard. It could be a lesson starter, or form part of a plenary or could just be used throughout the lesson as a quick check on what the students have learnt so far.
This is something that always goes down well when I demonstrate it in training sessions [...]
Here’s a simple idea for using an Interactive Whiteboard for an end-of-lesson plenary activity. It’s a very simple slide to produce;
1. Draw a circle and fill it in.2. Lock the circle to the background.3. Add text boxes with keywords from the lesson around the outside of the circle.
And thats it. At the end of the [...]
A little history first. Back in 1998/1999 the school I was working at The Cornwallis School, in Kent which was just starting to flex its muscles as quite a forward-thinking establishment in terms of its use of ICT. Our school was a pilot school for the Microsoft Anytime Anywhere Learning (AAL) project in which we [...]