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 [...]
Here’s another option for those times that teachers want to interact with something they are displaying on their whiteboard (or just on a projector) without having to go to the computer. This mini wireless touchpad and keyboard is an inexpensive way device that could be quite handy for use in the classroom. Want the students [...]
I’ve written a new guide for the ActivExpression voting kit produced by Promethean. It’s based on the help files that you can find within ActivInspire, but I’ve added some additional bits and pieces. I’m delivering a short session on this at a college next week, so thought some handouts would be useful. The guide is [...]
I had the pleasure of meeting up with Leon Cych at Teachmeet SUKE last week, and he was telling us about the great things he’d seen when a class of kids were given an iPod Touch each. Here’s his video which shows more: You can view the video at Blip.tv here. The movie was filmed [...]
09.15Did You Know 4.0?
The new version of the Shift Happens / Did You Know video has been released on YouTube. This one focusses on the changing media landscape. Some interesting information here. Thanks to Karl Fisch and Scott McLeod for this latest version. I think the shift to pocket devices is the most interesting. I use my Nokia [...]
I’ve seen a few IWB-replacement gadgets over the years, but these normally rely on setting up some kind of alternative gadget to pick up pen movement – such as the ebeam, or a camera placed somewhere in the room. All of these needed calibration and extra devices, and are just plain cumbersome. Good for a [...]
Here is an excellent gadget to use for recording student voices without having to be tied to the laptop or PC. The Easi Speak USB mic is a handheld microphone that lets you record directly onto the device, a bit like a dictaphone. They are very portable and would be ideal for taking on school [...]
03.31Using a Visualiser
I ran a training day last week for a college where we looked at Visualisers (sometimes called Document Cameras). Through the day we tried out some different things that you could do and I took some screen grabs. I have put the screengrabs, and a few photographs from the day into a short presentation. Hopefully [...]
03.24Visualisers
In advance of a training day I am doing on Friday about Visualisers, I’m putting this short post together to collect together some useful resources to direct teachers towards. A visualiser, (sometimes called a Document Camera) at its simplest, is a video camera mounted on a stand that connects to a data projector. You can [...]