ICT in my Classroom

Just thought I would quickly update about this as the second Year 6 class took this lesson with a colleague today as we were blogging. I had planned to use an online mapping tool to do some preliminary local history work. The lesson turned out to uncover an interesting gem of an idea! WINDOWS LOCAL [...]

What a great afternoon we have had – we had an ICT lesson in which I was aiming for the children to get the opportunity to blog and comment using the class blog. I had already explained about their login details and made some small laminated cards that had this info on (I used a [...]

As a result of poor imagery over our school it hard to use Google Earth for exploring our locality around the school. So I hope to do something similar using Microsoft Local Live – the imagery is far better (you can see the colour of our Nursery playground!) and fairly simple to use. All I [...]

After a good week of blogging I am planning on developing some blog writing rules with the class before I let them loose on writing their own posts. This will hopefully set a few boundaries and guidelines before we start and should build in good habits early on. I will use M Hetherington’s work with [...]

So we have really started our bloggin’ great adventure as we have had posts and had them commented on by people who don’t know us! Exciting! The children have also added comments – well just one so far and I haven’t even sent out the address yet! We added some photos yesterday which is very [...]

It is strange talking to children about something that they have no previous concept of. We are so used to saying “you will remember when” or “you should know this”, so telliing my class about blogging and our class blog was something completely new. Many of the children surprisingly had their own website and used [...]

As with BLOGGER I thought I would just see if I can embed YouTube video footage in a post. But after I pasted the code to the post frame it just sort of vanished. Not sure if WordPress likes embedding things. I will try to upload the file as an alternative. The upload feature is [...]

Since I emailed yesterday I have already had many responses to my Wiki which has been great. Dale Jones from the Mary Webb School has emailed me some great advice and experience from work in Shropshire. I contacted John from Sandaig Otters and he has already been really helpful, I hope that his expertise can [...]

This app won me over straight away. Over a year ago when I started to use GE I could see massive potential in just being able to see the world in an instant. So I set about making some resources and clearly the first things that came to mind are the geographical uses of the [...]

Well I think that I should really talk about some of the ideas I have had in the past. They have never been written down anywhere and anything that was worthy was just done or resources just made. So please excuse the post-dating of some entries.