There’s nothing better than playing with an art program on an interactive whitboard and literally drawing with your finger. It really works like a massive graphics tablet. And there are some excellent, free, online drawing packages. Some are quite simple, and others really mimic real-world art materials.
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Heres a link to a great lesson starter/plenary idea from the ICT Games website. Science Bingo. It uses the Primary Science vocab words from the Kent Scheme of work, which will suit most Primary Science classes.
Download a pack of Bingo cards to photocopy for the children – then use the Word generator to select words [...]
I’ve mentioned before that I am a big fan of Wordle. It’s a fantastic tool for making word clouds – and as such can be used for text analysis (try it with some written work and see what words you over-use) or just for fun image creation.
There was a ripple of outrage yesterday on Twitter [...]
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 [...]
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 whiteboard [...]
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 teachers, [...]
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 that [...]
01.31Incredibox
Here’s a fun little website for a Sunday morning. Incredibox allows you to create music using what is best described as a virtual human beatbox. You have to really try it to get the idea. Very simple to use, just drag the different sound icons onto each person to play each loop. Easy to use [...]
2Create a Super Story (2CaSS) is a creative piece of software from an amazing company called 2Simple. It is designed for use in primary schools and allows pupils to create their own activities and games. They launched it at BETT this year and it looks likely to become a firm favourite of primary ict teachers [...]
Here’s a quick link for a Saturday afternoon. Like many of the resources I pass on, this one comes via the magic of Twitter. Thanks to Carol Broos (Musictechie) for passing it on.
The site is called Balldroppings. Basically a ball drops from the hole in the top left of the screen. Click and drag with [...]