ICT in my Classroom

Ignore the shapes on the background which I mistakenly added – this Addition Application activity is about answering the addition and subtraction sums appearing in the centre. Children need to add the correct number of fingers onto the table to answer the question. Addition App – Set to multi-touch finger counts from Tom Barrett on [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For the first time in 2006 I saw a multi-touch device in action in the labs of Philips in Eindhoven. Just recently the wave of multi-touch devices has grown and this is especially clear in the use of mobile phones (also my iPod looks different). I suffered from iPhone envy when I was in Glasgow for the SLF [...]