Math and spelling tests are officially cool again. This morning I used TUTPUP to introduce students in Year 7 and 8 about online identies. See, Tutpup does a great job of registering students whilst protecting their identities. There are no usernames, only coloured …
Knowledge speaks out but wisdom listens It was the title of a Ewan MacIntosh blog post, thinking about our meeting this afternoon, perhaps appropriate. Also, a plea. If anyone knows of an ICT residental trip, I would love to hear …
Having just got back from my first Hamble College educational trip I wanted to think over my thoughts. After all where do colleagues seek guidance when planning educational trips? I can only assume that the smooth running of this trip …
It is not often that I find two tools in one day that I think I will go on to use as a teacher and also encourage my students to use to develop their own learning and presentation skills. However …
Flowcharts has real potential. I am sure that there will have been a lot of hard work bringing the site this far. There are some strong draw features, such as alignment, gradients and line types as well as a large …
Browsing yesterday I came across a powerpoint tip for presenters, as teachers, I thought it would be very useful in the classroom. Simply, during a presentation, pressing the ‘B’ key turns the screen black, press the ‘B’ key again, and …
For those of you that know me, you know I love inspiring words. I have tried very hard not to be distracted and to post quotes as blog posts, but after reading this Michelango’s quote from Garr Reynolds post, I …
Just a couple of points, the first is a really neat find for all students completing Unit 2 and 21 on the OCR ICT Nationals course. ICONlook is a search engine for ICONS. Even is students only use the site to find and combine the icons with …
