ICT in my Classroom

To support our work in Literacy I have created a simple set of images and video in the SMART Table Media application. This a basic lightbox app that is often demonstrated on multi-touch products. Although it does a basic job, the job this application does is always incredible to watch. Images can be freely moved, [...]

We took delivery of our second SMART Table unit on Friday (the first was faulty) and had the afternoon to use it. I wanted to share with you a few bits of video that I took of the children using the Table as well as a short introductory clip about the physical structure of the [...]

This week we have been doing some writing from the point of view of Rosie Trilling, a character from the book Street Child by Berlie Doherty. I wanted to help illustrate to the children the grand London house that Rosie was working at in the book. I thought that the StreetView layer in Google Earth [...]

Unfortunately we have had big problems with the first SMART Table unit we have used. Beyond waiting for keys the Table itself was faulty straight from the box. Since the beginning of this week I have managed to get some groups of children around the Table involved with some of the activities. It has been [...]

On Friday the greatly anticipated arrival of our pilot SMART Table took place. I visited BETT back in January and met with some representatives from SMART and Steljes (UK distributor of SMART products) to organise the possibility of running a pilot in the use of the table in our school. Unfortunately getting the device out [...]

In less than 30 days now we will be holding the TeachMeet Midlands event at the National College for School Leadership in Nottingham. If you are not familiar with these events they are held at no cost to the people attending, you will be fed and watered and perhaps learn something (with a sprinkling of [...]

By the end of next week we will have installed a SMART Table in my classroom. We are part of a small scale (3 school) seedling pilot here in England. As you can imagine, I am excited to further explore what such a device might offer within the primary classroom, and to do so over [...]

Last night I attended the North East London Teachmeet held at the Learning and Development Centre in the London borough of Havering. I was invited to do a mini-note presentation and talked about the use of technology as part of a blended learning environment. My talk was titled “Mr Barrett I Have Got Glue on [...]