You can’t beat a powerful image to add punch to your lesson. Whether you want something to put up to draw questions from the class or just to add extra emphasis to a presentation. I’ve written about this before – and linked to a few good sources of images such as The Big Picture. To [...]
10.22The Great IWB Debate
Just a quick plug for something Chris Betcher is trying to do. He runs a podcast called The Virtual Staffroom, and on that podcast he is trying to get a debate about the use of whiteboards called The Great IWB Debate. You can read more about the debate over on the IWB Revolution Ning – [...]
Had an excellent days training yesterday at the ICT Training Centre for Wokingham LA. The aim of the day was to look at “emerging technology in the classroom” and although the main thrust was going to be blogs, podcasts and wikis, we actually covered a wide range of sites and resources. Two of the sites [...]
Sorry for the lack of updates, but I’ve been all over the place this last few weeks… But here’s two digital storytelling tools that you might enjoy, thanks to my amazing Personal Learning Network (PLN) on Twitter. First, thanks to @NikPeachey for the link to this great comic book creator based on the characters and [...]
A quick heads-up. Smart have put the beta version of their Smart Notebook Express up onto the internet for people to try out. The idea (I think) is to have a simple online way of accessing Smart Notebook files via your browser with no need to install anything on your computer. You only get simple [...]
Had a request at the weekend from a ex-student of mine for some help on how she could get the audio from a YouTube video and put it onto CD. I thought it might be useful to share the procedure I tried. It seemed to be pretty straightforward (ish) Here is the original file on [...]
I’ve written a new guide for the ActivExpression voting kit produced by Promethean. It’s based on the help files that you can find within ActivInspire, but I’ve added some additional bits and pieces. I’m delivering a short session on this at a college next week, so thought some handouts would be useful. The guide is [...]