I’ve written about good sources of creative commons images and sounds before. It’s very important to be aware of the conditions behind using any resource found on the web. Students should be getting out of the habit of just finding images on a Google Image search and dumping them into their work.
Here’s a very good [...]
When I run my Blogging training days, we usually focus on getting an account with Wordpress or Edublogs. Both run off the same backend, but Edublogs is tailored more for educators.
If you are interested in finding out about all the different platforms that are available, then Dodie Ainslie has put together a great overview of [...]
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 should [...]
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 interactive Science animations [...]
Smart Notebook users should be aware of a new update that came out last week. Version 10.6 has a couple of very neat new features.
The most obvious feature is a new icon on your toolbar that gives you access to Measurement Tools. This is basically a ruler, protractor, compass and set square that may look [...]
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.
Thanks to Sidney Eve on Twitter for posting this link to an interesting presentation about Digital Natives.
As well as making some interesting points about digital natives, it also shows how presentations can benefit from losing all the bullet points and combining small amounts of text with punchy images.
Digital Natives
I’ve recently discovered a fantastic application called Dropbox and I wanted to share it with you.
Dropbox is a free application (with paid extras if you want more space) which gives a really easy way of storing and synchronising files across multiple computers.
I installed Dropbox onto my main home PC, and also onto my two training [...]
I was amused yesterday to find out that the technician at a school I had been in recently complained that I had been making some “bold statements” during my training.
Apparently I had told all the staff in the school that they were allowed to have copies of Smart Notebook 10 to run at home for [...]
Robert Marzano has just published an article in Educational Leadership that is worth a look. It’s based on the research project he carried out for Promethean which was published earlier this year (which I covered on the Blog here)
His research found that in general the use of an interactive whiteboard did produce a rise in [...]