Posts made in March 22nd, 2010

Red Fish!

Posted on Mar 22, 2010 in Activity Ideas, Games and interactives, Interactive Whiteboards, Literacy Resources, Numeracy Resources, Promethean, Resources, SMARTboards, Software, Useful Links | 0 comments

My first blog post here – thank you to Danny for inviting me.

I like to see children using Interactive Whiteboards (IWB).  Not just coming up to the front to point at something or move it, I mean really ‘using’ them.  Some of the best use of IWBs I have seen by children has been in EYFS and KS1.  Here I’ve seen children encouraged by their teachers to ‘play’ with the board during group activities.  I have witnessed children engrossed in activities, using the IWB software, recording sound, pretending to teach and using interactive sites.

My favourite website for EYFS has to be the amazing Poisson Rouge (my CSE grade 1 French enables me to translate this to ‘red fish’!).  What do I like about this site?  Well for a start there are very few words – everything is picture driven.  So starting on the first page what happens if I click on a mobile hanging from a shelf?  Well I’m taken to a new screen which enables me to match small pictures into a bigger one.  How do I return?  I simply click on the red fish.  What happens if I click on a picture on the wall?  It takes me to a room with a table and shelves with all manner of exciting things.  What can I do here?  I can drag the pictures at the bottom and find the same thing on the desk.

There are too many things to list here so I recommend if you haven’t seen it go click around for yourself.  Small children love clicking around finding out what happens when… This is the ideal site for it.

Fit the pieces on the bottom onto the space picture.

Can you drag the pictures at the bottom to the correct place?

Laura O’Halloran

Independent ICT Consultant

lauraohalloran@me.com

07549 937 079