Pale Blue Dot – beautiful
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Thanks to Tom Barrett for pointing out this fantastic video. Great resource for assemblies, Geography lessons, Science lessons etc.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEwdRE8MKQg&hd=1]
Thanks to Tom Barrett for pointing out this fantastic video. Great resource for assemblies, Geography lessons, Science lessons etc.
I’ve been playing around with two tools for mapping data onto Google Maps. They both have potential in and out of the classroom.
Ryan Bretag tagged me in the lastest meme doing the round, so here are 7 things you didn’t know about me: I’m a Cumbrian – I grew up in the Lake District, quite near to the infamous Sellafield nuclear power station – but I don’t glow in the dark! I’m an Evertonian – There weren’t…
I will post my first impressions of Google Wave soon, in the meantime we have started building a directory of educators who are using Wave at the moment. This can be found here.
Inspired by Simon Job, this is a post about how I surf the torrential tidal wave of information that is out there on the Internet, how I filter it down into a manageable stream to consume and how I save the best bits for later. I have been using Google Reader for the last 3 years or so…
So this morning we gave our training session to around 20 teachers on using Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs). We had an hour and a half, enough time to scratch the surface of what was possible but little more. Hopefully we sowed some seeds that will grow from there. We split the session into three parts: An…
The two following videos have been doing the rounds over the last week in the ‘blogosphere’ (I do hate that word!). But just because you’ve seen them a couple of times doesn’t mean everyone in your school has – share them with you network now. We used them both as discussion starters in Leadership Meetings…