ICT in my Classroom

On Thursday night I came across this simple web based tool from David Muir’s post about it – luckily for me I was teaching my class about newspapers last week so I used it on Friday in my literacy lesson. If you have read our class blog you will have noticed we have been doing [...]

Thanks to Doug Belshaw for making me get on and write this after he pinged my Bubblr post. There are people who are reading my blog My Bubblr and Quikmaps idea is essentially an extension of a History activity I did with my class of Year 6 kids – they added photos to a quikmap [...]

I have been exploring online spreadsheets: Editgrids and Google have pretty useful spreadsheet tools. The concept for this mini-project is to conduct the same simple science investigation in as many different classrooms across the world as possible (at the same time where possible too!). Then to use an online spreadsheet tool to collaborate across these [...]

The Google Educators site has gone live and the article I wrote has astonishingly been included They even pushed the boat out and put a picture of me on! Here is the article… Teachers speak out Online mapping technologies now play an integral part in my teaching toolkit. Google Maps has allowed many developers the [...]

When I get an idea and I know I want to post about it here – I just write a Title for it and save it as a draft. Now for some reason this whole web 2.0 thing seems to be making me generate more ideas than I currently have time to write about. But [...]

Google Earth is fantastically visual and the kids love it when we quickly zoom back to earth from afar. But we are missing so much! So I decided to slow things down. I basically changed the Fly-To speed settings, from the Tools menu>Options>Touring. I reduced the speed as much as I could using the slider. [...]

It has been a busy day for ICT in my classroom today – ususally is on a Tuesday as we have our time over in the ICT suite. Anyway I will try and explain everything we did. Google Earth – Where are we today? Did this slightly differently today as I explained to the children [...]

Today I asked some of my children to use a scanned example of a newspaper article in Flickr and add notes to it. Basically they were finding examples of language features that we have annotated in a more traditional way in their books. What I like about Flickr notes is the fact that there is [...]

I have just posted to my new wikispace for using Google Earth in the classroom – I will endeavour to gradually transfer some of my resources from the GE Forum site. http://classroomgoogleearth.wikispaces.com Please visit and contribute if you can. Thanks.

This resource utilises the excellent web based information and media available from the BBC about different coastal walks. (Unfortunately some content may be unavailable outside of the UK) Here I have added placemarks for each part of a walk around Portsmouth/Southsea. For each placemark is a link to a panoramic view of that spot, an [...]