ICT in my Classroom

I have just had a look at my Science Investigations grid over at EditGrid and they are now showing the number of views the spreadsheets have had. I was very pleased to see my Science grid has had 210 views, that was quite surprising – but what I have noticed is there has not been [...]

This week and next week we are going to produce multimedia versions of our Poppy Poems that were written last week, coinciding with our World War 2 work in history and Remembrance day. For the last fortnight or so I have been exploring the different web 2.0 multimedia presentation tools, see the list below, and [...]

Lots going on recently so I thought I would just write a quick roundup… Parents Evening Last Thursday we had our first parents evening which was really positive and for the first time I discussed our class blog with some of the children’s parents. The response, from the people I spoke to, was very positive [...]

After school today I delivered some training that introduced ArtRage 2 a paint application from Ambient Design, a New Zealand based software company. The intuitive nature of the software made it a real hit with my colleagues. Most importantly as a teacher you can clearly demonstrate mixing of colour with paints. The virtual paint behaves [...]

This half term I am providing some voluntary training workshops in school on a real variety of different exciting topics, tools and concepts that I believe will be extremely important in the definition of a modern classroom embedding ICT and making the most of web 2.0. Infomapper ArtRage2 – this is amazing and a valuable [...]

Ever since the new update from Edublogs the theme I have been using no longer shows me the buttons and links I have previously added and been able to use. So I am looking for a new theme – and slightly intrigued to find out if I can change more about the look and feel [...]

Today we once again hosted headteachers taking part in the Strategic Leadership of ICT (SLICT) programme from the NCSL (National College for School Leadership). This will be about the 3rd year in a row we have hosted for the event. We had seven visitors with us this morning from different schools around the UK. We [...]

Looks like there is some work ahead…just spotted this on Ollie Bray’s blog Last year I produced some Google Earth resources inspired by the BBC’s groundbreaking Planet Earth series. I wanted to show the children where these amazing places were and although the video available on the BBC site is great, it does not contextualise [...]

I do not think old Will had this in mind when he named his theatre down on the banks of the Thames but I showed my children the Globe Theatre in all it’s glory on our digital globe – Google Earth! As an introduction to the playwright and his works (we are looking at Macbeth [...]

I have just viewed Joseph Papaleo’s K12 screencast presentation on video conferencing and Google Earth and I was delighted to find a reference to the Maths in Las Vegas Google Earth resource that I made. Even though they were being downloaded from the BBS forum those resources did not get much feedback – so thanks [...]