Be an edu PikWizard
You have been told. You can not just go and help yourself to an image. Not even if you are a teacher and mean well. You can search for images and “Usage rights,” of course you can. Or you can …
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Dirty STAR
Effective marking, there are a growing number of blog posts on the topic at the moment. Basically we are being advised to through in a pinch of meta-cognition and a smattering of feedback and whallop, we have a recipe for, …
Boys achievement
Sticking on the ‘narrowing the gap’ agenda I created a poster for the staffroom and staff work areas. Again, help yourself. The resoultion is should be sufficient for an A4 poster. The quote is adapted from the most recent DFE …
Self assessment with NAPE
A teacher (at least I think it was a teacher) posted a photo of an AFL poster on Twitter. You ‘like’ it, so you save it, store it, bookmark it, tag or flag it. Sadly, far too often one’s cup over …
Two free tools
Two free tools. If you use and love the ‘5 minute planner,’ keep an eye out for the 5 period, 5 minute (or should that now read 25 minute day planner) planner and follow @dandesignthink while you are at it. Dan’s a very …
Triptico
I first uncovered Triptico when I was looking for ‘fridge magnet’ type activities for teaching poetry last year to my Year 10s. More recently, I found my way back to David Riley’s (@David_Triptico) Triptico website via a tweet, to find …
FREE Teacher Resources
FREE Serif Graphics Software and Teacher Resources, useful for any teacher from any subject area. DrawPlusx4, MoviePlusx5, Webplusx5, PagePlusx5 (handy for editing PDFs) and PhotoPlusx4 are all available plus teacher resources and CD of VLE video projects (apparently worth £300), …