IWB Delicious
I haven’t posted for a short while, I’ve been busy with a writing job that’s taking a little longer than I expected (Adobe Captivate is fun but time consuming). Normal service will be resumed soon! I just wanted to mention a new blog I’ve set up. It’s not going to replace this one, just run [...]
Just a quick blog post to say there are still places available on my IWB in Science course for Lighthouse in London on 17th June (flyer) More details here Contact Lighthouse if you want any more information about this course or the other courses later in the year. I’ll be delivering a day in Glasgow [...]
Well I went to TeachMeet on Monday and had a great time. I met up with a few people I’ve met through Twitter, and one or two ex-colleagues too. You can see a run-down of what happened on the TeachMeet wiki, but here are some of the things that I wanted to share: The Visualiser [...]
Inspired by Doug Belshaw’s post over here, I was finally inspired to try and build my own wii IWB system. I’m not the most practical person (I’m still very proud of my D+ in woodwork at school) and I have never soldered anything in my life. But undaunted by this I trecked off my local [...]
New from those innovative people at Microsoft – a vertical screen, that you touch and interact with. Interesting idea. Hmm.. haven’t we seen something like that before? Or to quote Apple recently – The Wow happened 5 years ago… Edit – Here it is in action
Microsoft have finally released the public beta of their World Wide Telescope project, and I just had to write about it. It’s a must for any Science teacher, or anyone interested in astronomy. Basically, its Microsoft’s version of Google Earth/Sky and if you’ve used the Google version in the past then you’ll pick this up [...]
One of the perils of having an online presence is that you can be looked up by anybody with access to the internet. This can include prospective/current employers and, in the case of teachers, pupils and their parents. Here is a cautionary tale from the Washington Post. Again it outlines the dangers of having your [...]
Here’s a fun little tool that could liven up the way you present information – or make a class writing task a little more fun. The newspaper generator lets you put your own text into a few boxes, and then generates an authentic looking newspaper article containing your text. The finished product is very authentic, [...]
One thing that a lot of people get wrong is that they believe that the IWB is inherently Interactive. That just by using it, they are making their lessons interactive. This is something I try and get across in my training sessions – that you need to work a little to put the Interactive into [...]
I’ve recently got my hands on a set of Smart’s new Senteo voting kits. They look really nice and I can’t wait to try them out with a class soon. Smart is moving into a quite crowded market, against products like Activote, TurningPoint, Quizdom etc but this is a pretty nice product. Once the software [...]