The challenge: Getting students access to the reading texts – remotely. (In this case a hard copy play of Oliver Twist.) Sub challenge: Supporting our students inference and understanding of the narrative. Plus some trick colloquialisms and Dickensian references. Like …
As an English teacher I was always looking for ways to get my students excited about reading and writing. Interactive fiction was one such experiment. I quite often revisit Zork or Hitchhikers Guide to Galaxy or Lost Pig and the …
Ahead of teaching Year 9s Dickens’s ‘A Christmas Carol’ and Year 8s Conan Doyle’s ‘The Hound of the Baskervilles’ my first responsibility was to broadening and deepening my own subject knowledge. For example I learnt that the Victorian’s interest in …
IMHO Jamendo is the very best of what the online community and music has to offer. Simply, Jamendo is a community of free, legal and unlimited music published under Creative Commons licenses. The Jamendo platform gives artists the opportunity to …
Here at Hamble College we have extended the ICT provision to include additional units from the OCR Nationals. In reviewing Unit 22 Sound we have introduced our students to podcasts. I was quite surprised the number of students that were …
Look, it could be simplier. Send a voicemail, student feedback or any audio message in quick easy steps. As I was writing this review, it dawned on me… I shuold really be using the tools to explain what it can …
If you could play almost any song at any moment would that present a teaching tool? Well there are some great audio tools out there. Today I used Fizy to settle an MFL cover class. Students choose a song to …
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