Instacalc

ByDaniel Stucke Blog February 22, 2007December 21, 2022

Wow!

Now this is an online tool with a wealth of uses for teaching maths and using in general rather than excel / windows calculator.

Instacalc is an online calculator / spreadsheet mashup. It supports sharing, and blog embedding, and intelligently interprets what you type in. Check out the blog for a walk though of the features.

Here’s an example I just knocked up in two minutes, a little Pythagoras….

I think there is a wealth of potential here for use in the classroom, for homework and for blogging.

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20% Time in School – Leaving them to it…

ByDaniel Stucke Blog January 9, 2012December 21, 2022

Stretford High School has five core values, one of these is creativity, one is independence and one is drive. I have been trying to instill these core skills into my Year 8 Maths class this year by giving them an hour a week to do whatever they choose. Motivation: I was inspired at the SSAT…

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Noted App – write note, send to email, done

ByDaniel Stucke Blog May 19, 2011December 21, 2022

Off topic but incredibly useful! Noted is a new app that does one thing and one thing well. It opens up, you type a note, you click send and it appears in your inbox. I’ve used dozens of to-do productivity style apps and with the best will in the world I make big old to-do…

TeachMeet North West – My Presentation

ByDaniel Stucke Blog October 1, 2009December 21, 2022

I’m doing a quick presentation at Teach Meet North West tomorrow night in Manchester. If you haven’t been to a Teachmeet before it’s an ‘unconference’ where enthusaistic teachers get together to share ideas, usually with an E-Learning theme. I’m doing a 2 minute nano-presentation on Google Forms, based on my interview / blog post from…

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Moving Home

ByDaniel Stucke Blog June 26, 2011December 21, 2022

After blogging somewhat infrequently for the last 5 years, 3.5 of which have been here on this self-hosted WordPress blog I feel like it’s time for a change. The last time I changed this blog theme I tried to make it a little easier to use and more like a Tumblr blog. However reading Will…

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IWB Training

ByDaniel Stucke Blog February 19, 2007December 21, 2022

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…

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PC Software Image

ByDaniel Stucke Blog October 10, 2010December 21, 2022

Below is a guide for staff to support our new standard software image at school. I’ve added a lot of free software, thought the whole list might be of interest to some. What software do you have on your school image?