I’ve had quite a few requests recently about how to change the default fonts in Smart Notebook. A lot of teachers do not like the font choices that you get by default and would either like to make the fonts larger, or use more school-friendly fonts like Sassoon Primary. I’ve produced this quick helpsheet that [...]
02.24Science Storybooks
Just a quick post to flag up this fun little resource site for Science called Science Storybooks. It contains a stack of Flash animations that can be used to introduce many different science concepts, some include songs that would provide a fun way to start a lesson. The resources are completely free, and also contain [...]
I love Canada, I love the Olympics, and I love The Big Picture website. So when you get all three combined, it’s just fantastic The Big Picture have produced 45 excellent photographs from week 1 of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. Some of these would be excellent to use in Science lessons to illustrate forces [...]
Just a quick post. You may not be aware that it’s now possible to use the power of Google to search only for Promethean flipcharts using this custom search engine: A similar feature exists for Smartboard users if you want to find Smart Notebook resources.
Thanks to fellow twitterer Sophie Bessemer for tipping me off about these science resources from BP Educational Services, the education department of the energy company. Secondary Science teachers might want to check out the Carbon Footprint Toolkit. This teaches students about carbon emissions and their impacts, choices for carbon reduction and alternative energy supplies. The [...]
As a companion post to 10 Primary Science ideas for your Whiteboard, here are 10 secondary school Science websites you might enjoy: Absorb Learning from Yenka : Hundreds of free IWB animations for KS4/KS5 Chemistry and Physics. ARKive : thousands of free wildlife videos and photographs, including great Darwin resources. FreezeRay : large bank of [...]
Here’s another guest post from education writer Karen Schweitzer. Karen is the About.com Guide to Business School. She also writes about online degree programs for OnlineDegreePrograms.org. She wrote the very popular guest post: 20 Interactive Whiteboard Resources last summer. Engaging students in some classroom topics can be difficult. But with the help of your interactive [...]
iBoard first caught my eye last year at the BETT exhibition. They produce an excellent bank of interactive resources for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 classes in several subjects, including literacy, numeracy and science. Since then, iBoard has been purchased by the Times Educational Supplement (TES) and made available free of charge to all [...]
Teaching with Smartboard is an excellent resource for all Smartboard users. The site hosts regular video podcasts which explores SMARTBoard teaching techniques to maths teachers. Each episode lasts from 10-20 minutes. Our emphasis and purpose is to create lessons that are engaging for students. Dave Sladkey is a high school math teacher and Scott Miller [...]
One type of software that is really cool on an interactive whiteboard are the various painting packages. Drawing is hard with a mouse, but better with a graphics tablet – and you can’t get a bigger graphics tablet than an Interactive Whiteboard. If you own a Promethean board then you might be interested to know [...]