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Welcome to my blog! While I think of something important to write, why not read about me and have a look at my other blogging activities?
Letter Rush is yet another word game for iOS devices. I’m looking forward to trying this out with learners at school next week. The twist is that the words that need spelling are provided for you, you then make them from the word grid as quickly as you can. Games like Letterpress or Wordtower where…
David is the author of http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/. Worked through some fantastic infographics from his site, go look at them now. Better still see his TED talk: Some interesting insights from using Google InSights to track search terms. Great tool for use in the classroom. Nice talk about needing to compare proportions rather than totals, in the concept of…
Disclaimer: I would consider Dawn a friend, thanks to many interactions via Twitter & Teachmeets etc even though we’ve only met a handful of times.. I won’t go into great detail about the work she has done as her blog has details of it all. LWF Bio. Dawn discussed using Nintendo DS & Wii with the pupils are so engaged…
I came across the excellent Scratch programming tool via an interesting discussion on Classroom2.0. I’m planning on investigating it a little more in the near future, there are a wealth of mathematical possibilities for it from algebra, logic, geometry, probability etc etc etc. However I’ve been thinking of a quick way in to it for…
I was delighted to be contacted last week by one of our Humanities staff with the following email: I presented Project 8’s new learning platform for next year, ‘The Village’ in the Humanities teachers toolbox on Tuesday. Our idea is for us to set up an imaginary world where students can create a community, developing…
Arrington invests in Code Academy I spotted the excellent Code Academy a few weeks ago. And it looks like I wasn’t alone. It’s received a huge round of funding including from Michael Arrington: What really excites me about Codecademy is that you can learn almost anything this way. All I can think of is how…