Keep Calm
Keep Calm poster maker app for iOS. Love it! will be using this in school for a poster campaign after half term. But for now off to the Lakes to follow my own advice!
My Promethean Activboard is great, I need a new projector, but I’m a big fan of the boards and the software. So I’m quite excited that there is some new software incoming. I’m really pleased that I’ve been offered an early download of the software. Canny marketing work by Promethean offering the software to bloggers…
I’ve been playing around with two tools for mapping data onto Google Maps. They both have potential in and out of the classroom.
Graphing Google Now you can plot mathematical functions right on the search result page. Just type in a function and you’ll see an interactive graph on the top of the search results page.
The BBC along with Keri Facer at Manchester Metropolitan University are investigating the idea of a BBC Micro Mk2.0. For those of you who didn’t grow up in 80’s Britain, the BBC Micro was an Acorn computer, build for the BBC Computer Literacy Project and became the mainstay of early IT in almost every British school. An…
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…
Oliver Quinlan’s got me thinking out loud… …What if we spent all the money / time / efforts that our Teaching Assistants cost / provide on conducting detailed analysis of progress and then feeding this back to the teacher and learner? John Hattie’s work is hard to ignore. But Oliver’s right. We continue to be…