ICT in my Classroom

Over the next few weeks at school, once we return from half term, we will be learning about writing effective instructional texts. (Year 6 – 10/11 year olds) I want to begin to make the most of the links that emerge so readily from blogging so I have planned to work with Jamie Wahab in [...]

Since the staff at my school have begun blogging the questions surrounding the pedagogical practises in the classroom that incorporate blogging have been spiralling amongst us. For many, including the teachers of early years classes, it seemed a very solitary activity with the children sitting and the teacher typing. It is clearly an important stage [...]

Over the last week my class have been voting for their new wordpress theme on our class blog. We decided upon 5 themes including the current one and I set up a poll on our wikispace so that the class could vote for their favourite. I used PollDaddy to create the poll and embedded it [...]

Two boys from Year 4 just about burst into my classroom this afternoon proclaiming that they had been left a comment from a teacher in Australia! They were the very picture of excitement and I was too, we loaded up their class blog and read the comment. I said that they needed to go and [...]

Some new ones, why not drop them an encouraging comment to help them get started. Year 2 Class Blogs. http://priestsic22.learnerblogs.org/ http://priestsic2.learnerblogs.org Year 4 Class Blog http://priestsic4.learnerblogs.org I know the children would be excited to hear from you.

Tonight I delivered a staff meeting that introduced the social bookmarking tool del.icio.us. It was really well received by all and I began by explaining that the need for such a tool had been highlighted in responses to subject audits which coordinators had carried our for the SEF (Self Evaluation) and wider school improvement planning. [...]

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Today we were writing a simple flow diagram for an explanatory text about drive belts. So I planned to use Gliffy, the online diagram tool, to do the job. I was really pleased with how things worked and the user friendly nature of it all. It is a free to register site and has all [...]

Before Christmas I contributed to a publication from the ICT professional body called NAACE. The magazine is all about “Sharing Success” and I was pleased to explain some of the work I have done with Bubblr+Flickr during a literacy lesson for the second issue. However for some reason it’s publication passed under the radar, anyway [...]

Another show is ready to listen to and it couldn’t be easier to get it! All you have to do is go to the GCast player in the left sidebar and click on POSTS – now choose the top show for the latest. This week we spoke with Clay Burell, a teacher at the Korean [...]