ICT in my Classroom

Next week in our literacy lessons we are going to utilising a piece of content referenced in the new UK Primary Strategy. It is a short film called The Piano by animator Aidan Gibbons, take a look. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/Sr64NI33qUo" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] It is intended to be used by Year 5 children but our [...]

I was pleased to see the final instalment of my contribution to the SMARTBoard Lesson Podcasts published the Sunday before last. Ben and I discuss the future of the IWB and a couple of lesson ideas I contributed. SMARTBoard Lesson Podcast #74: A History and Literacy Lesson from the UK Let me know what you [...]

It seems that it will be an interesting year regarding the release and development of interactive surface technologies. Now it seems there is a mixture of large players in the market all of which could concievably affect the look of our classrooms in the not too distant future. As you may have read I have [...]

Last Thursday night I presented to Ivanhoe Grammar School about the uses of ICT in my classroom. But this was no ordinary professional development event, Ivanhoe is in Melbourne, Australia. We conducted the net cast using a free trial on some desktop conferencing software and used Skype for the voice call. It was quite a [...]

I came across this great little Maths game – thankyou Sandaig Otters. Lots of Japanese text so no instructions. All you have to do is choose three spheres that add up to 10 before they scroll off the bottom of the screen, if you get a total that is greater than 10 you lose part [...]

Following a link to my blog from Stephen Hall at Tech Waves I unearthed a rather strong opinion against the idea of 1 to 1 laptop projects in the US. His post “Laptops are a costly Mistake for Schools” gave a me a good dose of reality just as I am on the brink of [...]

Back in December I posted about my thoughts on investing in a pool of laptops for classes at school. Well it has been nearly 5 months since those initial thoughts and since then I have managed to pin down the make and series of machine we want and I have a much clearer understanding for [...]

A few months back I was lucky enough to stumble upon Ben and Joan’s Podcast. Predominantly about the use of the SMARTBoard in classrooms, but often branching off into the wider world of Web2.0 etc I really enjoyed listening to the show. Ben asked me after an initial contact to share my experiences through a [...]

It has been a whole month and more since I last posted to my blog. You may be wondering why? Well it has been a busy few weeks since the Easter break, so much going on. My son, George, is on the very brink of walking for himself and he seems so small and vulnerable [...]