ICT in my Classroom

I spotted Animoto via the NextGen Ning network and Justin’s post about it, further to that John and Doug have given it a mention. As you will quickly realise, and John rightly points out, Animoto is very simple. There is no real creative control over what you produce, you just throw some photos at it, [...]

Further to my initial thoughts of linking up the use of Diigo annotations with Google Notebook use I have developed a visual workflow of how a student might interact in this way. The context could be anything from a simple reading comprehension task in a literacy session to ongoing research within history or any other [...]

Further to my use of the animated short “The Piano” last year I discovered this excellent version of “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes as I researched the literacy work we are doing at the beginning of the new term. It is produced by Britannica Dream Productions via some pretty imaginative hacking of the game Sims [...]

There seems to be no other way of actually managing a large number of Google accounts then working through a domain. So today I registered through Google priestsic.net for our school and began exploring the apps that are now available. To my surprise Google Notebook is missing from the list which is a great shame [...]

So iGoogle is a start page for Google account users which can aggregate all of the Google apps into simple little widgets, plus many, many more. I have been thinking carefully about how the children in my year group may be able to use this iGoogle page. The page itself can be highly personalised through [...]

So this new academic year we have access to 8 laptops in each of the four top junior classrooms, and I am looking forward to making the most of the free Google applications. One of the great things about holidays or breaks from school is the fact that you get some decent thinking time. I [...]