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 [...]
Sumdog is a fun website for numeracy from the people behind Crocodile Clips and Yenka / Absorb Science.
Sumdog’s free maths games are designed to improve numeracy in upper primary and lower secondary (students aged 9 to 13).
Covering 100 fine grained numeracy topics, ranging from simple addition to square roots, Sumdog adapts to the skill level [...]
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.
For the entire list, check out my Delicious page [...]
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 [...]
Just a quick post. You may not be aware that it’s now possible to use the power of Google to search only for Promethean flipcharts using this custom search engine:
A similar feature exists for Smartboard users if you want to find Smart Notebook resources.
Thanks to fellow twitterer Sophie Bessemer for tipping me off about these science resources from BP Educational Services, the education department of the energy company.
Secondary Science teachers might want to check out the Carbon Footprint Toolkit. This teaches students about carbon emissions and their impacts, choices for carbon reduction and alternative energy supplies. The Toolkit [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]