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Busy Things
Very rarely do I write a post about a commercial piece of software. But Busythings is no ordinary piece of software. For an annual subscription you get access to a range of activities matched with the...
View ArticleShared Writing
Shared Writing is a resource designed to support children in developing their writing skills. It focus’ on word and sentence level. Once children have experience of each skill they should be given...
View Article#classroomorg
The next few blog posts I will be writing will all be related to classroom organisation. They are a mixture of suggestions from my own classroom and crowd sourced ideas from Twitter using the...
View ArticleTablet Time…
Okay, so you wouldn’t know it from the headline catching post title, but this post is not just about the hardware. Instead, it is about how I am fortunate enough to be able to implement a long term...
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RM Easimaths. Quality personalised learning.
Wow. That was my reaction when I saw RMLightbox’s RMEasimaths. Its like RM Maths online. But with oh so much more… In my work as an ICT AST I get frequent briefs based around using ICT to support...
View ArticleIBoard+ The super quick way to set quality activities.
A lot of people liked the IBoard. I have to say I never really used it much. It had lots of resources for Foundation and KS1 but not really organised in a way that made it quick to set up from a...
View Article#GONEIN60
http://gonein60.net I must say right from the off that the general idea for this project has been stolen from @ianaddison and his excellent http://www.undertenminutes.com. It also came from a need to...
View ArticleA Voting System for Any Device
Most people have heard of a whole class voting system (each child having a controller linked to a response program on the ‘host’ computer). I’d wager a fair amount of people have seen one sat in a box...
View ArticleRecommended Reads
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-t0y-MyEWCNsimEfrcxIL6zSCUn4syUDEA9QfkkOIZ4/edit Above is a link to a shared document called Recommended Reads. The idea of this document is to create a crowdsourced...
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Blackberry Playbooks in the Primary Classroom – 4 months in.
If you have read this or this then you will know I have championed the strategic use of tablets in the classroom for quite a while and am lucky enough to be able to put the strategy to the test in the...
View ArticleDigital Wings
About 2 Years 2 ago we decided to move away from a traditional learning platform and build our own set of link instead. The main reasons were our provider never fulfilled the promises they gave us when...
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Progress Progress Progress…
Education has changed. 18 months ago I experienced an Ofsted inspection that appears to have been a blueprint for the new 2012 September inspections. How do I know this? Because I recently had the...
View ArticleEducreations and The Flipped Classroom
Educreations is a tool that allows teachers to create videos for children, similar to the popular showme IPad app. However Educreations is different. How? Sure it has an IPad app, but it also has a...
View ArticleKidsmeet
On Thursday 16th of June 2011 the first ever Kidsmeet took place at Hawes Sides Primary School, Blackpool. The brain child of @tomsale and @mister_jim, Kidsmeet is a spin of event from Teachmeet. It is...
View ArticlePosterous: The perfect school blogging platform
This post explains how I have used the free Posterous blogging platform across all classes in our school. Now I admit to being behind the game in terms of using blogging in school but it just hasn’t...
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Strategically planning for use of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the classroom
***After all the below post I finally decided to hold fire for a few months on purchasing tablets. This will allow me to see the durability of such devices and wait for their price to decrease. So for...
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Zondle in a Primary School Setting
This post is designed to go through the simplest and quickest steps to get www.zondle.com making an impact on children’s learning in a primary school classroom. If you have not heard of Zondle or you...
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Busy Things
Very rarely do I write a post about a commercial piece of software. But Busythings is no ordinary piece of software. For an annual subscription you get access to a range of activities matched with the...
View ArticlePixel Press
Sometimes a tool comes a long that is so innovative, so exciting, so unique that you can’t help but be jaw droppingly in awe of it. Thanks to @Ideas_Factory for pointing out Pixel Press, as for me it...
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A Collaborative Reading System
Every teacher wants their children to develop a love of reading and be inspired by different authors. We set up our classroom with rich reading based displays, read quality texts aloud to our class,...
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