ICT in my Classroom

So you have scribbled and annotated all over a numberline, in a maths lesson, and now want some children to come and work on the board on another example. How can you quickly get rid of all of those scribbles. This is a tip to erase all of your annotations quickly. (Not just in maths!) [...]

I just wanted to say a big thankyou to you the readers of this blog for helping me reach an  important milestone. Over 10,000 unique visitors to this blog since I added my stat counter about a year ago. I know that may seem a pittance compared to stats for other spaces you have churning [...]

Great to see a few people have already added to the Google presentation about sharing tips and techniques you have found successful with the IWB. Please continue to add to it, we are on #6 today already! I would love to see 50 different tips before Christmas! Here is a video I have made tonight [...]

Sharing is good. I have started a simple Google presentation to allow IWB users to share a simple idea that has proved successful in the classroom. I would like this presentation to grow and grow as more and more people contribute their ideas. We can then all use this resource to help provide professional development [...]

I have just finished talking to Ben and Joan from the SMARTBoard Lesson Podcast as they have been recording a round table discussion for their 100th show. Joining us was Chris Betcher from Sydney, Australia. We discussed a few questions about SMARTBoards in schools: 1) Is there a SMARTBoard/iwb pedagogy? 2) Does SMARTBoard/iwb uncover or [...]

My favourite web based tool I am using in my classroom at the moment is Visuwords. It is a dictionary/thesaurus/etymology visualisation tool which uses Princeton University’s WordNet, an opensource database built by University students and language researchers. It works wonderfully with a SMARTBoard as you can move the nodes about and shift things around to [...]

At this time of year I like to look at this great resource in Google Earth I think it will be a useful teaching aid for Science. It shows the leaf colour of major forests in and around the UK, the information is gathered from the Forestry Commission sites and layered into Google Earth. The [...]

A short while back I was buoyed by the use of Google Spreadsheets in our science lessons. The children enjoyed the fact that we were sharing data and it added an edge to their motivation. They questioned the data that popped up as the sheet updated, they enquired about it’s ownership and accuracy. However this [...]