ICT in my Classroom

I am excited to let you all know that I have decided to move my blog to a self hosted WordPress platform. With the amazing help from Doug Belshaw and his constant nudging, I have made the switch, which was effortless really, to give me more flexibility for my work and ideas. The new blog [...]

I have recently confirmed that in mid November I will be travelling to Doha, Qatar to be part of the World Innovations Summit for Education, hosted by Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development. According to the conference information the, WISE Forum is a “by invitation only” event that will bring together 1,000 leading [...]

To kick off Whale Week (the final few days of work using Endless Ocean in our Sealife topic) with my class I planned to discover the Blue Whale in the Nintendo Wii game. Planning a discovery is I suppose a bit odd, but in a moment of solitary gameplay, I mean planning, in the classroom [...]

Google Squared is a product of Google Labs. It displays your search results in a grid format. Each item found for your search term populates the rows and their common attributes are shown in the columns. Rather then listing the web pages, your results are organised. In my opinion it is vital that we don’t [...]

With the half term break upon us here I wanted to introduce some new members of the “Interesting Ways to Use…” family. In addition to the usual types of tech topics I have decided to start some resources that are not technology specific in a hope to widen the relevance. One is to Support Writing [...]

In my continued efforts to support the staff at my school navigate the ever evolving landscape of educational technology, I have begun producing a fortnightly email newsletter. When sat writing it for the first time a few weeks ago I hit upon a nice set of regular sections I could easily update every 2 weeks. [...]

Day one of introducing Google Docs to a class is always an exciting one, I have been fortunate to be able to see three cohorts experience the fun ways to use it. Today we made a start with our Year 5s and had a great afternoon. The first thing that you need to have ready [...]

Today we had our inaugural Fish Friday Challenge. We had so much fun and I am compelled to explain what we did and to encourage you to do something similar with your classes. Whilst I was gathering ideas for our Sealife unit (centred around the use of Endless Ocean on the Nintendo Wii) I began [...]

We had fun today using Wii Sports Golf during our maths lesson. This week the children have been practising different written methods of subtraction and today we repeated the Wii idea from last year. After doing some recapping of the compact method of written subtraction we worked as a whole class with the game. Each child was [...]

As we continue our Sealife topic we have been exploring the conservation of sea turtles and subsequently climate change. We learned how rising sea levels have a direct impact on sea turtle nesting sites. I just wanted to outline some of the great resources we used in our classes this afternoon. The main part of [...]