IWB Delicious
I’ve been using Twitter for quite a while now, and I think it’s a great way of building up a network of like-minded people. I’ve lost count of the number of cool web applications and tips I’ve got from people via Twitter. There are some very experienced educators out there talking about IWB’s as well [...]
No posts for a while. And won’t be posting for a few days while I enjoy an Xmas break. Just wanted to wish all the readers of this blog a very happy Xmas and thank you all for visiting over the past year (and today I realised I missed the anniversary of setting this blog [...]
I’m indebted to Tom Barrett for making me aware of a fantastic little application called Tooble. Tooble may very wel be the ultimate YouTube video downloader. Tooble runs on your computer and lets you search YouTube for keywords (or you can give it the direct URL to the video you want). All you need to [...]
Here’s a great site for using songs to help the teaching of Science in the classroom. Simple Science has videos for many KS2 topics with songs, and also explanations of some of the concepts; http://www.simplescience.net/ Videos are hosted on Vimeo, which means they are higher quality than YouTube, and also means they are accessible in [...]
Over the last few weeks I’ve been involved in producing a new flyer to advertise my services as an IT trainer. I have just had them back from the printers and I am very pleased with them. I’ve just uploaded an electronic version to the Think Bank website, and I’d like to share it here [...]
While on the subject of Digital Storytelling, I found another website the other day that I’d like to share. It’s called Storynory and the idea behind the site is to provide audio files of children’s stories. Some of the stories have some very nice illustrations to accompany them. And even better, the site is free! [...]
I received this comment on one of my posts last night, and I thought it was worth reposting. It’s from a new children’s author and you might find the videos fun to play to the class as a story starter activity; I’m a young children’s author. My first book, Hazel’s Phantasmagoria, was published by Quercus [...]
Thanks to Patricia Donaghy for posting about a great site that provides training videos for WordPress blogs and how to do various things with them. The site is called, no suprise, WordPress Training, and it’s well worth a look.