The newest official SMART Training and PD video is up on YouTube. It is a quick overview of the SMART Notebook Maths Tools, check it out: Download a 30 day trial of the Maths tools here.
Newly qualified teacher Tim Handley (@tomhenzley on Twitter) has put together an excellent guide to surviving your PGCE year. It’s a crowdsourced book, pulling in the experience of Tim’s PGCE year as well as a wealth of information shared by experienced teachers via Twitter. Inside the book you will find 143 pages full of hints, [...]
Smart have had a redesign of their website. As a result, it’s bloody hard to now find the tutorials and guides that are available on the site. If you didn’t know they were there, it would be hard to track them down. If you want to access them, try this link: Smart Notebook Help Files [...]
If you are looking for training materials for Promethean ActivInspire then your most definitely do not want to miss Tim Cooper’s wiki. You can find it here: http://promethean.york.wikispaces.net/su10training. There are 13 flipcharts, each covering a different aspect of ActiveInspire, plus a transition flipchart for those moving across from older versions, an advanced flipchart and finally [...]
A few years ago, the government agency for ICT in Schools – Becta – produced a series of guides on the use of Interactive Whiteboards in secondary teaching. Each document containsed a set of subject specific advice, guidance and examples to support more effective use of ICT in the teaching and learning of science. There [...]
The Whiteboard Challenge – set up by Jess McCulloch is back, and better than ever Are you new to using an interactive whiteboard (IWB)? Have you used one for ages but want some other ideas? Are you using an IWB regularly but know you could use it better? Then you are invited to join The [...]
Quite often I find myself in schools with quite old versions of Smart Notebook. Or the technicians have only installed Smart Notebook and not installed the full Gallery or Lesson Activity Toolkit. This is a real shame as, especially with the Gallery and Lesson Toolkit, you are missing out on a lot of content that [...]
Here are two very useful websites to bookmark if you are looking for basic computer help on a variety of different topics. Chris Thomas has put together iPrimary : www.iprimary.co.uk which features video tutorials he has produced to support teachers who wish to develop their ICT skills, and extend the use of ICT within their [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]