ICT in my Classroom

A little while back the EdTechRoundup team had the wonderful opportunity of interviewing the Google Applications Edu Team in the UK. We asked our networks, via the blog, wiki and Twitter, to contribute their questions. Over at the EdTechRoundup blog the serialised answers are being published, as the title suggests, one per day. Please take [...]

This afternoon we embarked upon the most challenging technology related work we have done to date in Year 5. The children are 4th graders, 9 or 10 years old. Recently we all went to Perlethorpe Activity Centre to support our work on rivers – we measured the velocity and profile of the River Meden, as [...]

The lessons that I have enjoyed the most this year have been when we have adapted to the children’s enthusiasm for certain activities. Before our half term break we had one of those sessions. In our literacy lessons we have been learning about the punctuation pyramid since September. It is a simple graphic that shows [...]

I hope that some of you have enjoyed reading the 33 Interesting Ways (and tips) to use your Interactive Whiteboard. The Google presentation continues to grow as people contribute, the last three tips are titled: #31 – Snap it! (using the SMART capture tool) #32 – Check by order (self checking method using the layering [...]

Derrall Garrison has tagged me on a new meme, called “Passion Quilt” which originated from Miguel Guhlin. So what image could encapsulate what I am passionate about and what I want my students to learn? There could only be one. Caption for this image: Sharing and becoming a global citizen There are so many valuable [...]

I use Google Docs just about every day, as much of what I need on a regular basis is there and I often flit between computers. I was pleased to discover (or at least what I assumed to be a discovery!) the Forms tool as part of the sharing feature in a Google Spreadsheet. For [...]

I am pleased to announce the second of our EdTechRoundup podcasts is available for you to listen to. In this episode yours truly is at the helm alongside John Johnston. It was a great fun making the show and I was delighted to be working with John as he was instrumental in getting this blog [...]

Following my last post I thought I would explain the process I take to get from a resource created in SMART Notebook to a Befuddlr puzzle. A series of screenshot would have taken longer to do so I have created a short screencast. In this tutorial I am using my IWB software, however you could [...]