Posts made in January 18th, 2010

Teaching Videos

Posted on Jan 18, 2010 in Interactive Whiteboards, Resources | 0 comments

Teaching Videos is a great new free website from Mark Warner – you may know him from other educational websites such as Ideas to Inspire, Display Photos, and Teaching Ideas.

Teaching Videos is intended to be a place where teachers and view and share educational videos that can be used in the classroom. Whilst you can browse Youtube, Vimeo or Google Video to find a wide range of videos, Teaching Videos allows you to see videos which other teachers have recommended as suitable for education. In the future you will also be able to register and add videos to the database yourself!

The site is just starting out, and is beginning to grow. It will be well worth keeping an eye on it, and checking it out when you are looking for videos to use in the classroom. http://www.teachingvideos.co.uk/

Please be aware that some school networks might block Youtube or other embedded videos, so check this before your lesson!

I Need My Teacher To Learn

Posted on Jan 18, 2010 in Tutorials and Guides | 0 comments

Here’s a thought-provoking video. I Need My Teachers To Learn was Written and Performed by Kevin Honeycutt and produced by Charlie Mahoney.

Promethean Canada Resource Pack

Posted on Jan 18, 2010 in Interactive Whiteboards, Promethean, Resources | 0 comments

With the 2010 Winter Olympics taking place in Vancouver/Whistler in a few weeks time, the eyes of the world will turn to Canada. With that in mind, Promethean have produced a great resource pack to teach your students all about Canada. This pack is for Activ Inspire only.

This resource pack contains 140 resources on the topic of Canada that can be used in your flipcharts. They are organised into four different folders:

• Canadian Dollars- images of 13 notes or coins.
• Flags- 14 flags of Canada including provinces and territories
• Maps- 67 maps of Canada, territories, great lakes and more
• Photos and Symbols- includes national anthem of Canada, polar bears, maple leaves, hockey and much more.

Download the pack from the Promethean Planet website here.

Edit – Also keep an eye on Ollie Bray’s blog as he lists various different ways to use the Olympics in your teaching.

Games Based Learning #Amplified Education Session

Posted on Jan 18, 2010 in Conferences | 0 comments

A discussion around the use of games and gaming at Amplifed Education at BETT 2010. We had a very interesting discussion and could have gone on for hours on this topic.

Thanks to Leon Cych for sorting out all the filming of the various Bett Fringe events.