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 look [...]
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 with [...]
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 entering [...]
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 application that’s [...]
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 the [...]
Smart today announced that their new SMART Notebook Math beta is now available to download. This is a plugin that adds additional capability to your existing Smart Notebook 10 installation.
To quote the Smart press release:
SMART Notebook Math extends the capabilities of SMART Notebook software with a dynamic set of math-specific tools and features, so when [...]
Smart have just made available version 2.0 of their excellent Lesson Activity Tookit for Notebook 10. The Lesson Activity Toolkit contains templates for several activities that you can use to keep your students involved and make learning fun. There are over a dozen types of customizable activities including: anagram, category sort, image match, keyword match, [...]
03.16Sudoku Starters
The Sudoku puzzle has been around for a while now, so I shouldn’t have to explain how to do them. If you want a quick activity to use as a mental warmup then a Sudoku puzzle could be just the thing.
One way to use them on your IWB would be to use the desktop annotation [...]