I’ve written about good sources of creative commons images and sounds before. It’s very important to be aware of the conditions behind using any resource found on the web. Students should be getting out of the habit of just finding images on a Google Image search and dumping them into their work.
Here’s a very good [...]
When I run my Blogging training days, we usually focus on getting an account with Wordpress or Edublogs. Both run off the same backend, but Edublogs is tailored more for educators.
If you are interested in finding out about all the different platforms that are available, then Dodie Ainslie has put together a great overview of [...]
I’ve had quite a few requests recently about how to change the default fonts in Smart Notebook. A lot of teachers do not like the font choices that you get by default and would either like to make the fonts larger, or use more school-friendly fonts like Sassoon Primary.
I’ve produced this quick helpsheet that should [...]
Teaching with Smartboard is an excellent resource for all Smartboard users.
The site hosts regular video podcasts which explores SMARTBoard teaching techniques to maths teachers. Each episode lasts from 10-20 minutes. Our emphasis and purpose is to create lessons that are engaging for students.
Dave Sladkey is a high school math teacher and Scott Miller is the [...]
I’m just back from a very snowy Nottingham having attended the ASE (Association for Science Education) Conference.
I gave a talk about Blogs and Wikis in Science Teaching and wanted to share the presentation, and resources here, so that they can be found all in one place.
The presentation is here on Slideshare if you want to [...]
Had an excellent days training yesterday at the ICT Training Centre for Wokingham LA. The aim of the day was to look at “emerging technology in the classroom” and although the main thrust was going to be blogs, podcasts and wikis, we actually covered a wide range of sites and resources.
Two of the sites that [...]
I’ve written a new guide for the ActivExpression voting kit produced by Promethean. It’s based on the help files that you can find within ActivInspire, but I’ve added some additional bits and pieces.
I’m delivering a short session on this at a college next week, so thought some handouts would be useful.
The guide is hosted on [...]
07.04Shift Happens 3.0
This is still a very powerful video – if you haven’t seen it before it really does make you think differently about how we approach education and how we prepare our students for the future. This is a revamped version created by Karl Fisch, and modified by Scott McLeod.
Today I was delivering some training for Teaching Assistants. We wanted to give them the opportunity to try out some of the resources that are available on the Internet to use with students.
I put together a list of sites that we played with during the day. I’ve reproduced the list below.
A full list of all [...]
Just a little bit of advance notice, and some exciting news for me! If you are in or near Alberta, Canada next March then I will be speaking at the Teacher2Teacher conference on 18th and 19th March 2010.
I’m very excited about it since I don’t get to do too many conferences abroad plus I have [...]