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, [...]
Those very clever people over at 2Simple have revamped their online tools to produce a new resource called Purple Mash. Purple Mash is an exciting mash up of the creative Online Tools, curriculum focussed APPtivities and programs to support and inspire children throughout the curriculum! The good news is that there is “free-range mash” that [...]
03.22Red Fish!
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 [...]
Smart Notebook users should be aware of a new update that came out last week. Version 10.6 has a couple of very neat new features. The most obvious feature is a new icon on your toolbar that gives you access to Measurement Tools. This is basically a ruler, protractor, compass and set square that may [...]
With languages set to become a statutory requirement from 2011, Orangery Education Ltd has produced a bank of resources for the whole of the Primary QCA MFL schemes of work. Key features include all vocabulary recorded by native speakers, video clips of French children speaking and singing songs, and all the authentic photographs you need, [...]
2Create a Super Story (2CaSS) is a creative piece of software from an amazing company called 2Simple. It is designed for use in primary schools and allows pupils to create their own activities and games. They launched it at BETT this year and it looks likely to become a firm favourite of primary ict teachers [...]
Here’s a quick link for a Saturday afternoon. Like many of the resources I pass on, this one comes via the magic of Twitter. Thanks to Carol Broos (Musictechie) for passing it on. The site is called Balldroppings. Basically a ball drops from the hole in the top left of the screen. Click and drag [...]
I’ve written about Aviary before. If you haven’t seen it, Aviary provides a suite of online tools that allows you to take screengrabs and edit / host images. For free. Twitter has been buzzing this week with talk of their latest addition to their application suite. They’ve called it Myna, and this time they are [...]
07.03Dabble Board
It’s too hot to do much, I’m on the sofa watching Wimbledon and my broadband is down… so many excuses to skip the long post and just share a quick link for a Friday afternoon. So here’s an interesting site to check out: Dabbleboard, which according to it’s creators is: Dabbleboard is an online collaboration [...]
I wrote back in the Spring about how Promethean were changing the nature of the IWB market with a change in the way their ActivInspire software was licenced so that you could use a cut-down version on other brands of Interactive Whiteboard. Well it looks as though Smart are now following along similar lines with [...]