On the subject of halloween resources – a quick plug for two great posts by Jim Hollis over at Teachers Love Smartboards;
The Halloween Search
Smartboard Halloween Activities
Enjoy!

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As a follow-on from the Halloween post, I got a comment from a chap from TeqSmart promoting their halloween word bucket for Smartboards. It’s a flash game similar to the Lesson Toolkit which if you open it will put itself straight into your My Content area.
Taking a look around the rest of the site, there [...]

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I had somebody show me this trick yesterday at a training session I ran.
I’ve played with the control toolbar in Excel and Word, but never had a reason to investigate it in PowerPoint.
This technique does rely on you having YouTube access at the time you do your presentation. It doesn’t physically embed the YouTube video [...]

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If you are looking for some Halloween resources to use on your Promethean board, then take a look at the Promethean Planet website.
They have a Halloween resource pack that contains spooky backgrounds and images. It also contains some game template pages for adding a halloween theme to some lesson plenary activities such as Pictionary, Hot [...]

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Here’s my presentation about Blogging for my forthcoming training day.
If you are in the UK. and do want to attend these courses, I am running three dates for Lighthouse this academic year. Click here for more information.
Blogging in Schools
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Here’s the powerpoint I’m using as the introduction for my New Technologies in the Classroom training day.
New Technologies in the Classroom
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I’ve been getting ready to do a podcasting training day in a few weeks and have been looking into different ways to podcast.
A neat little gadget that I picked up this week is the Olympus Digital Voice Recorder. I bought the WS-311M model, but there’s a few different ones out there. I bought mine from [...]

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