I’ve just got back from a Smartboard trainers gathering up in Leeds. It’s always great to get together and share new stuff that we’ve found with everyone else, and learn new things too. Vicki from Shoofly demonstrated Storybird, a website she’d found, and I just had to share it here. Storybird provides a very user-friendly [...]
12.23Smart Measurement
Jim Dornberg (@jdornberg) has put together a wiki of links to useful interactive resources for the teaching of measurement. There are some very cool links which would be useful for supporting primary school maths sessions. The links are mainly flash-based, so are not restricted to just Smartboards – you could use these on any brand [...]
Here’s a great little link I got from the PetaPixel photography blog this morning. Flickr Poet is a quick way of turning a poem, sentence or chunk of random text into a sequence of Flickr photographs. FlickrPoet is part of Stories In Flight, an ongoing exploration of storytelling in the age of the Internet. It [...]
Based on the success of previous teacher-led TeachMeet events at the past 2 BETT shows, and by kind arrangement with EMAP this event is part of a ‘three day teacher residency’ of evening events at the BETT Show 2010. This is an unprecedented opportunity for educationalists to be inspired by and contribute to discussions, debates [...]
12.20The Known Universe
Via @DerrenBrown on Twitter. This amazing animation of the known universe would be awesome full-screen on your IWB.
12.18Happy Holidays
The christmas holidays came a day early to some parts of the UK today with a huge dump of snow overnight meaning a lot of schools closed for the day. I know readers from other countries will probably laugh at our measly 6 inches of snow (Hello Canada!) but we’re just not cut out for [...]
As we reach the end of the year, we enter the annual awards season. I was really excited this week to find out that the Whiteboard Blog has been nominated for an Edublog award. The Edublog awards highlight some of the very best blogs out there that cater for the educational community so I am [...]
12.11ASE Conference 2010
If you are a Science teacher, then you need to know about the ASE Conference which takes place every January. This year’s event is in Nottingham on the 7-9 January. There is a wealth of workshops and talks that are well worth attending. If you do go – you might want to pop along to [...]
Just wanted to share a great little presentation that was mentioned on Twitter the other day. I didn’t write this, but I do think it’s great! I may not be totally here yet, but a lot of my newer presentations are trying to have fewer words and many more pictures. Try and do the same [...]
I was really fortunate to be offered tickets to go and see the Christmas Lectures at the Royal Institution this year. I’m ashamed to say I haven’t been to the RI before, but now I have, I really do want to go back there and have a good poke around their museum. I loved the [...]