Daydream Education have been making wall charts for 14 years, having shipped over 1 million wallcharts covering over 600 titles. In recent years they have begun the process of converting these wall charts into interactive versions that can be displayed on Interactive Whiteboards. These interactive wallcharts currently cover 10 subjects, Business Studies, D&T, English, Geography, [...]
Here are a few ideas taken from some of the talks I have given this academic year for ideas on using your Interactive Whiteboard during lesson starters. They could also be used as plenary tasks. Some of the ideas you may have seen before in various places (such as the Canada, Germany talks), but I’m [...]
Can I Play This at Home is a fun free online game, in which you try to win the World Cup as any of the 32 nations – by answering questions on tricky spellings, spanish verbs, state capitals, world capitals… or whatever else the teacher decides on. Teachers can create their own quizzes on the [...]
03.22Red Fish!
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 [...]
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 [...]
When I was a teenager one of the big quizzes on the television was something called Blockbusters. People of a certain generation still find the phrase “Can I have a P please Bob?” amusing The basic concept is that two teams play against each other, trying to build a chain of colours across the board. [...]
Here is a collection of interactive SMART Board games for educators from PBS KIDS. This is a collection of different Flash games to explore the curriculum from trusted programs such as Curious George, Super Why and Arthur. Although the site says it’s for Smartboards, it will work fine on any brand of Interactive Whiteboard. The [...]
I have written about this site in the past when it was XML Education. The site has a new look, and a new name. It’s now called Triptico and you can find it here: http://www.triptico.co.uk . The site is produced by two teachers over here in the UK, and the resources they have produced so [...]
02.27Wall of Words
A quick link to a fun activity for sentence construction and punctuation – The Wall of Words. Pupils have to arrange the words into a sentence, and put the correct punctuation at the end. If they are right, builders add it to the wall, and they then get a new sentence. It’s a nice, fun [...]
02.27Primary Maths Games
Thanks to Jonathan Lurie on Twitter who sent me some links to a collection of primary maths games hosted by Oswego City School District in New York. These are fantastic to use on the IWB for lesson starters or plenaries. Go here and add it to your bookmark list now! The games are in flash [...]