There’s nothing better than playing with an art program on an interactive whitboard and literally drawing with your finger. And there are some excellent, free, online drawing packages. Some are quite simple, and others really mimic real-world art materials. Here are five online drawing applications that I really like; SketchThis is a new one that [...]
Last week I was at a college running a session on how to use a Smartboard. One of the questions I was asked was if I knew of any good ‘finger-friendly’ websites that I could recommend. I demonstrated a few during the course, but this got me thinking about producing a decent list of these [...]
02.20Whiteboard Room
The Plasma Screen & Whiteboard Room is a free website where teachers in special schools can download teaching resources, created by other teachers, that they can use on their plasma screens, interactive whiteboards, etc. All the resources have been created by teachers and are free to use for educational purposes. The site provides a mix [...]
02.20Apologies
Apologies for messing some of you around over the last few days. I tried to move this blog across to WordPress. I’ve done this with other blogs and had no problems at all. I managed it all OK, and everything seemed to be working. But I could not add long blog posts – I kept [...]
02.20Prezi
I’ve spent an hour or so this afternoon playing with a new website called Prezi. I first saw the site mentioned on Mark Warners blog, and I signed up for the beta. This morning I got my Beta invite. Prezi provides a very different way of producing presentations and maybe can change the way we [...]
02.20Need a Hero?
The Hero Factory lets you produce your own superheroes. You can choose the gender and look of your character – what outfits they wear and then select their super powers. It’s great fun. Once created you can output your hero onto a mock-up comic book cover, or just screengrab from inside the creator. Remember you [...]
Mark Warner of Teaching Ideas deserves a lot of kudos for starting off another brilliant collaborative presentation. This one aims to provide ideas for inspiring writing in the classroom. Like the others (listed below) it starts with a few ideas and then relies on the teaching community to pool their knowledge via Twitter or by [...]
02.20Fridge Magnet Poetry
Here’s a fun activity from the Magnetic Poetry website – Fridge Magnet poetry. There are several sets of words to choose from. Drag the words and phrases onto the page to create your own poems. This is an activity you could make yourself in your IWB software with a lot of text boxes, but this [...]
02.20Student Editions
Wouldn’t it be great if you could save all the notes you had written on your interactive whiteboard during a lesson and then give it to the students to revise from? Or to give to students who missed the lesson? How handy would that be? But did you know you can already do that? Both [...]