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, [...]
I’ve been looking over the site stats, and here are 10 of the most visited pages over the last year. There might be some things you’ve missed. Most of the page titles are self-explanatory: 11 Ideas for Music Lessons on your Interactive Whiteboard 13 sites for MFL teaching with your Interactive Whiteboard 10 avatar generators [...]
If you are looking for training materials for Promethean ActivInspire then your most definitely do not want to miss Tim Cooper’s wiki. You can find it here: http://promethean.york.wikispaces.net/su10training. There are 13 flipcharts, each covering a different aspect of ActiveInspire, plus a transition flipchart for those moving across from older versions, an advanced flipchart and finally [...]
So yeah I am still here, but been a little too busy to blog. Getting everything sorted for the end of term. Been hidden away for a while writing an update to resources for Serif software to teach the OCR Nationals ICT course. Which I am glad to say is pretty much complete. Now it’s [...]
Here’s a rather cute use of Augmented Reality technology. Produced by London Zoo it gives you the chance to have your very own Augmented reality lemur, Loris, sitting in the palm of your hand. Loris doesn’t do a lot, and you can’t really interact with her. But she’s very cute. You’ll need a webcam to [...]
06.30Aviary for Education
I’ve written about the fabulous Aviary before. If you haven’t seen it, Aviary provides a suite of online tools that allows you to take create images, edit screenshots, edit sounds and create music. All for free, and all through your browser. I was rather pleased to find out that there will soon be an special [...]
US whiteboard users might well be interested in this competition that has just been launched by StarrMatica. StarrMatica is on a mission to help teachers in every corner of the United States! They are giving away a $900 StarrMatica School Subscription in every state! StarrMatica school subscription gives all teachers and students in a building [...]
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 [...]
LabSkills is an interactive software resource designed to help teachers and their students get more out of chemistry laboratory sessions at A-level and GCSE levels. Available as a USB stick, a teacher can use the material to prepare students for a laboratory session. LabSkills supports and encourages the student and enhances the practical work. It [...]
If you’re looking for some other excellent technology blogs for teachers then take a look at this list put together by Alexis. The Top 100 Technology Blogs for Teachers has links to some excellent blogs that are well worth adding to your Google Reader list. http://www.onlinedegrees.org/top-100-technology-blogs-for-teachers/ And also a big thanks to Alexis who has [...]