Here’s a quick tip that I was reminded of after a question on Twitter today. Let’s say you have a Smart Notebook file or Promethean flipchart which has lots of images in it, and maybe even some embedded flash files. How do you get those resources out to use elsewhere? Well, if you select the [...]
Jess McCulloch asked me to develop some whiteboard challenges for project she is working on. The whole challenge site will be launching on August 11th – so if you want to take part visit the Whiteboard Challenge Wiki and see what you need to do. This is the first of my Whiteboard Challenges. The infinite [...]
Yesterday was my last day of training for the Summer. I’m off until September 1st. I’ll still be doing stuff for the blog and suchlike through much of August. The last thing I needed to do this term was to film a session with myself and a Smartboard for my Smart Notebook 10 accreditation. A [...]
A quick post to share another interesting site for Chemistry I picked up from a discussion on the TES forums. The Periodic Table of Videos has been produced by Nottingham University Chemistry Department. There’s a nice 3/4 minute video clip about each element. Some show reactions, others just talk about the elements. From looking at [...]
07.17Copyright
I’ve been spending the last few weeks working on some resources for the new Diploma in ICT, specifically the Multimedia unit. It’s been taking up most of my non-training time, hence I’ve been neglecting the blog a little… This week I’ve been looking into some of the copyright laws, because we want students to be [...]
07.14Crickweb
Here’s a great site that all primary/elementary teachers who use interactive whiteboards should have bookmarked. A former colleague of mine, Dan Bunker, has produced a fantastic library of Flash resources for many curriculum subjects plus some generic fun Flash games. There’s over 160 resources on the site available to use. There are also 16 Promethean [...]
Just trawling my pingbacks via Technorati, and I noticed a link from a podcast site in the US called Wicked Decent Learning. Turns out they’d reviewed my blog as part of a section on Whiteboard websites. They seemed to like it – which was good. Thanks for the good review guys! If you want to [...]
Just jotting down my ideas for the mirandamod conference tonight. I plan on showing a few of my favourite tools, and probably the Flip video and USB tuner. I don’t think I’ll fit it all into five minutes, but I’m going to list the sites I’d like to show below. One so I can find [...]
07.10Digital Natives
Very quick post to point you in the direction of an interesting article in yesterdays Times: How the Google generation thinks differently Off up to London today to attend the Mirandamod Unconference. Hope to see some of you there, and if not, keep up via Twitter or Flashmeeting. update: maybe found here too http://www.mogulus.com/mirandanet
Here’s a little bit of history. I found this while trawling through my hard drive. Back in 1995, when I was a young green teacher, I was just starting out with creating simple web pages in Notepad. The World Wide Web was really in its infancy, and not many schools had their own websites yet. [...]