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Some Free Adobe Illustrator Brushes
Some Free Adobe Illustrator Brushes Just reacquainting myself with Adobe Illustrator doing some posters and things for school for next year. Came across these free brushes while looking for some nice arrows to add to a behaviour management process.
Arrington invests in Code Academy
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…
Google Love Stories
Google released their Parisian Love Story advert for the Superbowl earlier in the year – watch it, it’s ever so clever: You can now make you own stories with 7 simple search terms. It couldn’t be easier, you just type in up to 7 search terms and then choose whether the video will show it as a…
Fizz Buzz Scratch
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…
Letter Rush
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…
Pale Blue Dot – beautiful
[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.