One of my favourite websites, The Big Picture, has again delivered the goods with some excellent images from the first few days of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. A great way of stimulating a discussion about such a global event. You can see the images here. Let’s not spend too long talking about [...]
One of the talks I gave at the Teacher2Teacher conference was on finding useful digital content to use on your Interactive Whiteboard. There’s more to the Internet than YouTube and Google Image search! Although this presentation was delivered mainly to Smartboard users, and the original presentation produced in Smart Notebook format, the information is very [...]
Thanks to Peter Bryenton for his comment on my Big Huge Labs post yesterday for pointing me towards this website that allows you to turn any of your images into a drag and drop jigsaw. You can embed the code into your blog/VLE or just link direct to the page. Try it out with one [...]
I’m not sure if The Big Picture will be doing a similar calendar tomorrow, but as we rapidly approach December, what could be better than reusing their amazing set of images from last year. There are 25 jaw-dropping photographs from the Hubble Space Telescope. Put a different one up on your IWB every day to [...]
I mainly deliver Smartboard training in schools and colleges, but from time to time I do get asked to do corporate training for companies who have bought one for their meeting room and want to be shown how to use it. It’s a shame that I only show them a fraction of the things they [...]
07.16Apollo Plus 40
It’s the 40th Anniversary of the Apollo landings and there’s a lot of good stuff on the web as we hit the actual anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11 (in about 30 mins time in fact) WeChoosetheMoon is an excellent recreation of the mission in real-time. With audio and video links to experience the [...]
Here’s a couple of quick links to put a little awe and wonder onto your Interactive Whiteboard (or just your computer screen in general) As a space geek I am always a sucker for the images that the Hubble Space Telescope takes of deep space. They are absolutely awesome. And with the current Space Shuttle [...]
Stupeflix is a new site that lets you turn images into video slideshows in the same way that Animoto does. It’s currently in Beta and while you can create videos for free it looks like there may be a charge in future. You can add images by copying and pasting the image URLs froma site [...]
03.31Using a Visualiser
I ran a training day last week for a college where we looked at Visualisers (sometimes called Document Cameras). Through the day we tried out some different things that you could do and I took some screen grabs. I have put the screengrabs, and a few photographs from the day into a short presentation. Hopefully [...]
02.28Digital Microscope
I’ve just bought myself a hand held digital microscope for training days (the one’s I’ve used before are owned by the Scitt I work for) I bought a Veho from Amazon for about £45. I’m quite pleased with it, although the one annoyance is the software coming on a mini-cd which wont go into my [...]