#classroomorg

The next few blog posts I will be writing will all be related to classroom organisation. They are a mixture of suggestions from my own classroom and crowd…

Shared Writing

Shared Writing is a resource designed to support children in developing their writing skills. It focus’ on word and sentence level. Once children have…

Busy Things

Very rarely do I write a post about a commercial piece of software. But Busythings is no ordinary…

Zondle in a Primary School Setting

This post is designed to go through the simplest and quickest steps to get www.zondle.com making an impact…

Strategically planning for use of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in the classroom

***After all the below post I finally decided to hold fire for a few months on purchasing tablets. This will allow me to see the durability of such devices…

Posterous: The perfect school blogging platform

This post explains how I have used the free Posterous blogging platform across all classes in our school.

Now I admit to being behind the game in terms…

Kidsmeet

On Thursday 16th of June 2011 the first ever Kidsmeet took place at Hawes Sides Primary School,…

Primary Framework units with related books and other engaging resources

This post is about sharing books that you and your learners value when delivering Primary Framework units. If you have other resources that will support…

#ukedchat

What is #ukedchat

A conversation that goes on at 8pm every Thursday related to a variety of UK educational issues. Find out more Read more

RIP Flip Video Camera. Hello there Kodak Playsport…

On April 12th Cisco announced that they would no longer be selling the extremely popular Read more

Zondle

A week ago I was told about Zondle by @cerirwilliams…

Using ICT to impact on basic skills

Our ICT skills curriculum is being used fantastically well. We have the ICT Mark and regularly use software to support Literacy…

Instructions: Zack & Wiki Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure

I wanted to use a computer game as integral part of our Year 1 Pirate theme. We had touched on this with the Read more

Evernote for a Skills Based ICT Curriculum

Evernote has lots of possibilities in developing supporting systems for learning. I’ve already written about using it as an evidence storage Read more

Pirate Theme

For our latest theme we have become pirates, sailing across the high seas to visit distant lands.

The starting point for planning was to combine two…

Evernote for Evidence

For a while now I’ve been trying to think of a way to capture those learning experiences that occur outside of traditional books. I felt this would be…

Cinderella Theme

A theme based on Cinderella? Surely that will switch boys off? Read on and find out…

When forming this theme I started by looking…

CiHandheld

CiHandheld – Curriculum Ideas for Hand Held Devices

The intention of this form is to act as a central, collaborative resource of ideas for how to use…

QR Codes for Individual Targets

Today I had my first proper play with QR Codes. If you are not familiar with them, they are basically weird looking ‘barcodesque’ things that can be scanned…

Fa Mulan Theme

My final theme in Year 4 was based on exploring the Far East, under the title of the fantastic Chinese story, Fa Mulan. The bulk of the theme was based…

Interactive Tutorials

Below are links to posts containing sets of tutorials created using an interactive pen. Their primary audience are parents although they have been created…

ICT Progression Maps

I created these progression maps in 2007 to support teachers’ use of our ICT Curriculum, which I developed from Read more

The Future

Several things have occurred in the last few months that have led me to writing this post.

Firstly, we stopped our subscription to the fantastic Bett…

The Missing Tool: Online Document Editing

In 2007 I introduced Google Apps for Education at our 2 form entry Primary…