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Maths & Science in action! – 17 people in a Korean Tae Bo class accidentally tapped into a skyscraper’s resonance frequency, forcing a two day evacuation.
First up a disclaimer: The lovely people at BrainPop UK offered me & my school a free 3 month subscription to their site in return for a post on their new Maths videos, this is said post. With that out of the way, what’s BrainPop? The website has videos for many subjects, all starring Tim…
During our first 2 weeks blogging in school, the first thing that has dawned on me is that I could possibly be a bit of an internet geek, and that despite their capabilities with ICT, our students, and indeed colleagues, aren’t quite as clued up about the web as some of us. In fact, that’s…
Following yesterday’s use of Twitter in the classroom, I was walking to Period 5 (same class as yesterday) after lunch, when inspiration struck. I remembered this post from @tombarrett . Go and read it. Go on! I threw my lesson plan out of the window and did exactly what Tom did, here are the replies: (click through for…
“I often refer to Animoto as a gateway to "real” video projects. Animoto makes it very easy for anyone to create a great-looking video.“ Richard Byrne on Animoto for iOS. Good point, great product, good app. Our Humanities department in particular are using this to create fantastic, engaging videos for topics and even for types…
The title sounds like a nasty affliction – but I actually want to describe a great lesson! I was looking for a nice challenge for my Year 9 Computing class to continue developing their understanding of variables, if statements and loops – ideally moving on to nested statements and loops. As ever Twitter came to…