Sumo Paint

Sumo Paint is awesome! I love online painting programs, and this one really impressed me. Some of the paint packages I’ve found and blogged about have been fun, but you always feel like you are just playing with a cut-down web application- Sumo Paint looks and feels like a proper, fully-featured art program like Paint [...]

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Digital Microscope

I’ve just bought myself a hand held digital microscope for training days (the one’s I’ve used before are owned by the Scitt I work for) I bought a Veho  from Amazon for about £45. I’m quite pleased with it, although the one annoyance is the software coming on a mini-cd which wont go into my [...]

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E.gg Timer

Now my favourite online timer is still the fab music-playing one over at classtools.net, but I’ve just found a new one that is very cool because of its simple efficiency. It’s called E.gg Timer and it can be set to whatever time you want simply by adding the time to the URL: http://e.ggtimer.com/ So if [...]

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Wall of Words

A quick link to a fun activity for sentence construction and punctuation – The Wall of Words. Pupils have to arrange the words into a sentence, and put the correct punctuation at the end. If they are right, builders add it to the wall, and they then get a new sentence. It’s a nice, fun [...]

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Primary Maths Games

Thanks to Jonathan Lurie on Twitter who sent me some links to a collection of primary maths games hosted by Oswego City School District in New York. These are fantastic to use on the IWB for lesson starters or plenaries. Go here and add it to your bookmark list now! The games are in flash [...]

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10 tips for the whiteboard

A very quick link to a great blog post I found today by checking some of the links back to this blog with the WordPress Stats package. Rob Chambers Blog – ICT across the Curriculum has posted 10 Tips and Tricks to use on the IWB. There are some very useful ideas included there (and [...]

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Helix Nebula

This is such an awesome photo, I just wanted to point you towards it. Certainly would provoke awe and wonder on the IWB. View the full version here. More amazing space images from the ESO website here.

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Make a Monster

Yesterday I decided to dust off my rudimentary Flash skills and have a go at making a new flash resource to use on an interactive whiteboard with younger pupils. I wanted to make something that could be used to stimulate writing or discussion like the Superhero generator etc. So I had a go at a [...]

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One More Try

I’m going to have one more attempt to get this blog running smoothly on WordPress. I’ve reinstalled the files I need, and created a new database. I’m hoping this will fix the odd issues I was having when I added new posts. I’m going to leave things for a day or so to see if [...]

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Physics Games

I’m delivering an IWB in Science day in London tomorrow and I have been looking around for any new science websites that I might have missed. So I was really pleased to have stumbled upon Physics Games.net this morning. Physics Games.net provides nearly 50 different flash-based games, all collected onto the one site. A few [...]

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