ICT in my Classroom

I thought that I would reflect on what I have managed to do so far this half term with my class – it seems that we hit the ground running headlong into this web 2.0 thingy. I have really enjoyed working with the children on the class blog – as one child said to me [...]

Just added three new items. Still no contributions though… Planet Earth DV – Habitats – Caves Shackelton’s Voyage: Diary and letter writing Continents

[rockyou 42372319] I am quite impressed with how this looks. Has anybody used Rock You with their children / class? Might be some issues with easily accessing other content…

Just uploaded some more resources to the wikispace: Geography QCA Unit 15: The mountain environment Please visit and add your school’s location to the list and any other resources you have!

Many thanks for all of your responses and comments for this idea. I have created the spreadsheet that I hope to use for the sharing of results over at EditGrid (I find that this is much easier to use and currently has more features than Google Spreadsheets) Please go to http://www.editgrid.com/user/tbarrett/Science_Online and take a look [...]

Following a comment from Sally on the “My Quikmaps Lesson” post I thought I would quickly explain how to add images, video even Bubblr strips to a placemark. So you have made a new map and you have added a placemark > What next? Find an image stored somewhere online. For the images I used [...]

Today we had a planned session in using Bubblr. It was GREAT !! And I would recommend the use of this little site with a whole class to any teachers out there. It was simple and worked a treat… (Take a look at my previous post explaining what Bubblr is) If you will permit me [...]

We have SMARTBoards at school and one of the new features of Notebook 9.5 is the lasso screen capture feature. Just click on the camera icon on the toolbar. In our newspaper work we have been looking at the differences between direct and reported speech. A simple activity that involved the screen capture tool was [...]

Just thought I would add this as I have been on about teaching newspapers in class. Newseum is a fantastic site giving access to over 500 international newspaper front pages. Click on “Today’s Front Pages” and you can view them all either as a list or as a map which I have done with my [...]

I discovered this neat little network link Google Earth file via Frank on the Google Earth Blog. I think it will be a useful teaching aid for Science. It shows the leaf colour of major forests in and around the UK, the information is gathered from the Forestry Commission sites and transposed into Google Earth. [...]