New Technologies in the Classroom

Here's the powerpoint I'm using as the introduction for my New Technologies in the Classroom training day.

New Technologies in the Classroom

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Setting up your Blog

From my blogging and podcasting session, here's a guide to setting up a WordPress blog.

Making a Wordpress Blog - Upload a Document to Scribd

Elearnr

Just a very quick blog post to direct people to a new blog that offers some good advice on using ICT in the classroom, which already has some great tips on Whiteboards. It's called Elearnr, and you can find it here: http://elearnr.edublogs.org/

If it's not already on your list of blogs in your RSS reader, then I suggest you add it immediately :)

As a reminder - I've linked to quite a few good blogs in my sidebar to the right of this blog. I heartily recommend all of them in the list.

Seesmic

This is a test video from Seesmic. Seesmic is a nifty website that lets you record videoblogs straight onto the Seesmic site, and also record video comments on other peoples posts.

Picture quality is quite compressed, but then if you want better quality then use something like Youtube to host your videos. I guess Seesmic is more about the quick and easy way of getting a video online and having a conversation.

Here's an introductory video I have recorded. Apologies for the sound quality - I think that's more a problem with my webcam than an issue with Seesmic.


Update - you can already see how the conversation bit works since somebody has replied to my introduction message, and I've replied back.

For another good use of Seesmic, check out Terry Freedmans quick 2 minute Inset guides.

The IWB Challenge

I just wanted to direct you to the blog of Jess McCulloch who has decided that April is Interactive Whiteboard month and has been writing about her use of the IWB to teach Modern Foreign Languages. Read part 3 here, which has links to the previous posts.

As well as Jess, three other teachers at My Languages, The Langwitch Chronicles and Sans Problemes have also taken up the IWB challenge and written about their experiences. I'm looking forward to seeing more as they continue the challenge.

This has also been linked to the Passion Quilt meme, where teachers blog about what they are most passionate about in education. Again, well worth a look.

There is a growing network of inspirational teachers sharing their ideas on the Internet for others to use to develop their own teaching. I always love stumbling across a new one, there are some truly inspirational ones out there.