ICT in my Classroom

A pupil that I taught in my NQT year is currently doing a period of work experience in our school for her A Levels. It has made me realise how long I have been at my current school. I have decided to look for something new, a fresh challenge. I was pretty green around the [...]

As part of my numeracy lesson yesterday I used our class Nintendo Wii to support some of the shape work we have been doing. I identified the mini game Block Spot within Big Brain Academy as an opportunity for the children to continue to practice visualising and consolidate their understanding of 3D shapes. After a [...]

Curiously I suffered the same problem today as a fellow Twitter user was having yesterday. I retweeted his request for help and was pleased to be able to forward some advice from my network to help him. Today I was able to put some of that collective wisdom to good use, when I had the very same [...]

In November 2007 I began the first of a series of Google presentations gathering together some ideas about the uses of different tools for the classroom. I thought that the easy manner of sharing Google Docs was ideal to collate thoughts, tips and suggestions from teachers and educators all over the world. I began with [...]

Our class had a very enjoyable numeracy lesson today in which they were further exploring nets of 3D shapes and developing their ability to visualise them. We used SMART Notebook on the class laptops to help record our work as well as Google Earth for our shape of the week. This week we have been [...]

Just recently I have been advising some visiting colleagues about the benefits of using Twitter as the main protagonist in the story of my learning network. I wish I had such a resource when I was starting out into the world of educational technology or whilst I was training. After showing people how the network [...]

Over the last 2 weeks I have hosted visits to our school from a couple of ICT coordinators from primary schools in the region.  In the first visit of the year we spent time discussing the process of the ICT Mark, a national accreditation for technology in schools, and how it can help become a [...]

I have been fortunate enough to be part of a Teachers TV programme recently aired entitled “ICT for the Non-Specialist – Blogs/Wikis”. However the part that we were filmed about did not include anything to do with a wiki – what we did showcase was TutPup, Voicethread and Google Docs. We are in the second [...]