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 [...]
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, [...]
I’ve just got back from a Smartboard trainers gathering up in Leeds. It’s always great to get together and share new stuff that we’ve found with everyone else, and learn new things too. Vicki from Shoofly demonstrated Storybird, a website she’d found, and I just had to share it here.
Storybird provides a very user-friendly way [...]
Here’s a great little link I got from the PetaPixel photography blog this morning.
Flickr Poet is a quick way of turning a poem, sentence or chunk of random text into a sequence of Flickr photographs. FlickrPoet is part of Stories In Flight, an ongoing exploration of storytelling in the age of the Internet.
It would be [...]
Creaza is a free online suite of applications that lets you create online cartoons, edit movies, edit audio and create mindmaps.It’s not fre for the full version, but you can try it out and do quite a bit with the free demo version.
You use the toolbox along with various themes such as historical periods, fairy-tales, [...]
Sorry for the lack of updates, but I’ve been all over the place this last few weeks…
But here’s two digital storytelling tools that you might enjoy, thanks to my amazing Personal Learning Network (PLN) on Twitter.
First, thanks to @NikPeachey for the link to this great comic book creator based on the characters and scenes in [...]
So I have had the weekend to digest the great event that was TeachMeet SUKE (09) held at the impressive Hop Farm, Tonbridge (below). Traffic problems on the M25 and A21 nearly thwarted my plans to get there. A 1 hour journey took me 3 hours! … thankfully I left very early with a plan [...]
Storynory is an online treasure trove of audio stories. The site contains a mixture of new stories, fairy tales, and specially adapted myths and histories. They have published an audio story every week since November 2005 which are free to download and use.
The stories are read by Natasha Gostwick and her clear story-telling voice has [...]
Here’s a new site that you might be interested in if you are looking for games to play on your interactive whiteboard: Primary Games Arena
While I’m a little uncomfortable about a site repacking other people’s material on their own site, you can’t doubt there’s a tonne of useful games to be found here.
Personally I think [...]