ICT in my Classroom

I used Google Earth and a resource I had made about a year ago in my numeracy lesson today. It was just so much fun and the children were really responsive! Maths Vegas is basically a set of placemarks detailing some maths activities in and around the city. I remember that when I made it [...]

I have been invited by the headteacher at Highwood Infant and Nursery school to do a session in their INSET day. They have recently had Promethean IWBs installed and they would like to be inspired by some creative uses of them. I think that I will keep it simple and explore some of the useful [...]

Esther from Google Maps has been in touch after reading my post about the local history work (see below). She has asked if I could write an article about how we use the mapping service in the classroom. It will coincide with some current work I am doing with my class about our local history. [...]

They seem to do that a lot. I can’t help but think over a few ideas as I drift off to sleep and I was mulling over the use of old and new photographs that we have been doing in our local history. I wanted to explore the use of GPS and geotagging to help [...]

This is a lovely little app that could prove to be very useful. As the site suggests Bubblr is: …a tool to create comic strips using photos from flickr.com. Begin searching images and add bubbles to them. So easy! Just type a tag and and press go! The specific aspect I really like is the [...]

After exploring a whole raft of web 2.0 applications I have been thinking about the application of EditGrid‘s spreasheets that can be shared online. I certainly think that they have the capacity to change the way that spreadhsheets are taught or at least to add an extra collaborative strand. And I suppose I started to [...]

Strangely enough I only discovered this very useful little tool of Flickrs yesterday. Adding notes is far more visual than I imagined – I suppose it was a bit daft of me to miss it. But nevertheless this morning I decided to use ti with the children in my Year 6 class and we revised [...]

I have begun a class wiki over at wikispaces.com. I have already added a few tasks that came to mind – something about the RE work we have done, something on the Local History study [I imagine this being linked with some internet based research] and also a literacy task I have called “Let’s write [...]

Today has been Wiki Wednesday! I have had some time at school to get a few jobs done out of class and I have been exploring the use of wikis. Initially my thoughts were regarding there application in a classroom – children sharing their writing etc. Today I have been exploring the use of wikis [...]

It is great when a child teaches you something new! Right in the middle of the blogging lesson and after I had said that there is no way of spell checking your work when writing a post – a girl in my class tells me a solution! Google toolbar spell checker! Works a charm – [...]