ICT in my Classroom

For our revision we have been using our class voting system. We currently have a set of Turning Point voting keypads which the children love using. If you are trying to motivate your kids to learn I would highly recommend exploring a set of these. The software utilises MS Powerpoint which is extremely simple to [...]

It has been a slow couple of weeks with this blog, as you may have noticed. My Year 6 class near their SATs tests just after the easter break so we have been busy looking at practice papers and getting to grips with revision. These tests obviously create marking and I am sure there are [...]

So here is a great recommendation. If you are a teacher working with your class on instructional text then I would recommend using Wikihow. It reminded me of the How Stuff Works site but is characterised with wiki features – you can freely contribute articles and edit others. So how would you use it in [...]

At Priestsic before the half term break I assembled a small tech team from some Year 6 children (Hewson, Corey and Ryan) to take a closer look at the new LG Shine phone. Before we looked at the new phone we chatted briefly about the features of a mobile device that they felt were most [...]

Our ability to connect has obviously greatly improved since the advent of this 2nd evolutionary web. The walls of all our classrooms have begun to tumble and we look further outward, the earth as they say has become flat. So last week we made the most of our new links with schools in other countries. [...]