ICT in my Classroom

Three more pieces of video footage to help illustrate to you the ways we have been using the SMART Table in my classroom. In this post I also explore some of the topics arising from what is displayed.  Victorian Jigsaw – Media Application – SMART Table from Tom Barrett on Vimeo. This is a simple [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]