IWB Delicious
I’m grateful to Tre Greer on Twitter for bringing to my attention this interesting resource for teaching about flu epidemics from the Centre of the Cell in London. With Swine Flu / Hamthrax / Parmageddon in the news right now, it’s quite timely. Although based on Bird Flu it is very relevant to the current [...]
I’ve blogged before about the Smart Table – this is a multitouch table produced by Smart that moves away from the interactive whiteboard at the front of the class. If you are interested in learning more about them, Tom Barrett has been given one by Steljes to trial with his class. He has been blogging [...]
Promethean have now made available a report by education researchers Robert Marzano and Mark Haystead entitled “Evaluation Study of the Effects of Promethean ActivClassroom on Student Achievement,” The study examined whether Promethean’s ActivClassroom had an impact at different grade levels and across different academic content areas in schools around the US. The research found that [...]
A quick post to point Smartboard users towards a neat little trick with the fill tool and shapes. The Teqsmart people have some other great resource on their site, so check it out once you’ve watched it. View the original here. Also check out their page of Smart Notebook files and gallery items here.
Smart have just made available version 2.0 of their excellent Lesson Activity Tookit for Notebook 10. The Lesson Activity Toolkit contains templates for several activities that you can use to keep your students involved and make learning fun. There are over a dozen types of customizable activities including: anagram, category sort, image match, keyword match, [...]
If you want to try your hand at podcasting, but don’t want to be fiddling about with sound editors or suchlike, then take a look at Vocaroo. Basically Vocaroo is a website which will let you record a sound file, and then share that file with anyone who wants to listen to it. You can [...]
A very quick post to make you aware of yet another excellent online painting package. It’s called Pixlr and you can play with it here: http://pixlr.com/ No need to say a lot about it. Just go and have a play for yourself!
Four quick links to share, rather than blitz 4 new posts. 1. Hunkins Experiments: Loads of ideas for Science experiments you can do in the home or in the classroom. Good for inspiration. Worth a look. 2. Wonder Boards – IWB’s in action: A summary of several of the main IWB’s on the market. Mainly [...]
Sketchcast was a brilliant website that let you draw onto a webpage and record everything you did as a flash movie file. You could even record audio to go alongside your drawing if you wanted to.The file you produced could then be embedded into your blog or wiki page and shared with the world. Sadly, [...]
Etherpad is a very interesting new collaborative writing tool. It allows you to instantly create a shared writing space which you can edit in real time alongside up to 8 other people. To get started – go to the Etherpad website and click on the Create New Pad button. It will generate you a writing [...]