IWB Delicious
I ran a training day last week for a college where we looked at Visualisers (sometimes called Document Cameras). Through the day we tried out some different things that you could do and I took some screen grabs.
I have put the screengrabs, and a few photographs from the day into a short presentation. Hopefully it [...]
Thanks to Anthony Evans for sending me this link to a great thinking skills video on Teachers TV.
It’s a series of six short video clips for use on interactive whiteboards, designed to enhance thinking skills and promote creativity amongst Key Stage 2 pupils.
The clips vary in style and mood, and aim to stimulate imaginations and [...]
Jane Whitney is a medical and scientific illustrator who contacted me recently for advice on producing images for the SmartBoard.
She’s been developing an image bank of Science clip art for use on your interactive whiteboard (not just the Smart Board). Most images are in jpg format so can be copied and pasted into your IWB [...]
In advance of a training day I am doing on Friday about Visualisers, I’m putting this short post together to collect together some useful resources to direct teachers towards.
A visualiser, (sometimes called a Document Camera) at its simplest, is a video camera mounted on a stand that connects to a data projector. You can then [...]
A very short post as it’s Friday evening, but I wanted to give a quick plug for a very useful ActivInspire training manual I’ve just discovered on the Technowellies Blog.
You can read the ActivInspire manual here.
On the same blog, also check out the guides for Effective IWB use, very handy documents.
I’m loving Google Street View. I’ve been playing with it with for other countries for a while now, but they’ve only just released images from the UK.
I must admit, I’d only ever played with it in Google Earth, I hadn’t used the Google Maps version of it.
When you are using google maps you [...]
I’m delivering a Blogs/Wikis/Podcast day in Edinburgh tomorrow.
I’ve previously shared my guide to making a Wordpress Blog.
Here’s my new guide to setting up a Wiki on Wikispaces
The Sudoku puzzle has been around for a while now, so I shouldn’t have to explain how to do them. If you want a quick activity to use as a mental warmup then a Sudoku puzzle could be just the thing.
One way to use them on your IWB would be to use the desktop annotation [...]
Off to the Italian Alps for a weeks’ vacation. So it’s time for pasta, pizza, red wine, mulled wine and hot chocolate. And maybe a little skiing too.
You might just catch me on the webcams
See you in a week.
One of the things you might find confusing when switching from older versions of ActivStudio to ActivInspire is how you interact with the desktop and make screen captures.
If you switch to the desktop by using the Desktop Tools icon, you get a nice little floating toolbar that gives you easy access to tools such as [...]