rememberthemilk.com
May 11th
Ever find yourself thinking about things you need to do at 3am in the morning but then completely forget what they are when you wake up? Ever sit down in front of a computer and then can’t remember any of the thirteen things you are supposed to be doing? Then www.rememberthemilk.com is for you!
In its simplest form it is an online task list. Which is just what I use it for – one place for your task list that can be accessed from any PC, no bits of paper to lose, no Outlook to boot up and sync.
The nice touch with rememberthemilk is you can have different task lists (e.g. one for a coordinator role, one for you as a class teacher, one for personal stuff etc should you choose to). You can also set the priority of the task, so you know very simply and easily which tasks are high on your hit list!
That’s as much as I have used the system for but you can go further and share tasks with people and also set due dates and then view tasks that are overdue etc.
It’s all free to sign up to and works very nicely thank you very much!
Scratch
May 6th
This little moneky (http://scratch.mit.edu/) is a great site to enhance learners understanding of control. It basically introduces them to programming in a drag and drop, simple way that will give them enough flexibility to create a program themselves on pretty much anything they want. Its a free, downloadable program to install, so learners don’t have to share their work outside the classroom, although you can if so wished.
The way the program works is you basically have building blocks that can be customised and you snap them together to create a sequence of actions. Worth a look for KS2 I say!
