IWB Delicious
If you are looking for good examples of pupil-created blogs then go take a look at the Blog the World Cup project. The idea is brilliantly simple: there are 32 nations in the FIFA World Cup and there will be 32 blogs on the site, one for each competing nation. Each blog will be managed [...]
Online Audio Stories provide free downloadable audio books for children. With a wonderful selection of short stories for kids and bedtime stories, their free storytelling audio books for children are a delight. You can download the audio as an mp3 file and play on a computer, or transfer to a portable mp3 player. Stories include [...]
The National Archives is the UK government’s official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history. We give detailed guidance to government departments and the public sector on information management and advise others about the care of historical archives. The National Archives Education Service brings history to life through an award-winning programme of taught sessions and [...]
A quick plug for the Wichita Instructional Technology department who have put together an awesome collection of Smart Notebook files. According to one twitterer (Kelly Reseigh) This site has been dubbed the “Smartboard Motherlode” by some schools.. and it’s hard to argue with that description. The site contains loads of Elementary / Primary (K-6) Smartbotebook [...]
Thaks to Anne Marie for making me aware of Frank Asch and his website. Frank Asch is an author whose work includes the Moonbear picture books . He has a great website which contains five animated story books complete with audio such as I Met a Penguin. He also has his own channel onYou Tube where [...]
E-Learning for Kids is a “global, nonprofit foundation dedicated to fun and free learning on the Internet for children ages 5 – 12.” They offer free online courseware in maths, science, PSHE (Life Skills), literacy and computing skills. There are plenty of online Flash-based resources here. Some would work well on an IWB (a full-screen [...]
Tagxedo is another word cloud maker in the same vein as Wordle and many others. It allows you to create a visually interesting word cloud from a chunk of text, a file or a URL. You can play with the shape, font, colour scheme in much the same way as Wordle, then save the finished [...]
My first blog post here – thank you to Danny for inviting me. I like to see children using Interactive Whiteboards (IWB). Not just coming up to the front to point at something or move it, I mean really ‘using’ them. Some of the best use of IWBs I have seen by children has been [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]