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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 on the book by Robert San Souci and the folding poem, The Legend of Mulan….
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Below are links to posts containing sets of tutorials created using an interactive pen. Their primary audience are parents although they have been created so that pupils can watch them to refresh a previously modelled process. Calculation – Addition Calculation – Subtraction Calculation – Multiplication…
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DimDim or Twiddla can be used to communicate with pupils outside the school day, browse the internet together or broadcast a computer screen to all those connected. The sped up video below, however, shows how you can use one of these programs change the way…
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I created these progression maps in 2007 to support teachers’ use of our ICT Curriculum, which I developed from The Creative Learning Journey. I hope they are of use! Click to download full size versions.
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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 award winning Mathletics website. This was due to increased subscription costs, the need for pupils to remember multiple usernames…
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In 2007 I introduced Google Apps for Education at our 2 form entry Primary School. This was continued to be used successfully as the primary communication method until 2009, where we switched to a full learning platform in order to focus on learning tools. You…
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Storybird is a website that allows you to write a story using fantastic artwork by illustrators. You can collaborate with other writers on the same story or write it yourself. There are lots of possibilities for using Storybird in the classroom which have been magnified…
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I’m really excited about the theme we are starting next week, ‘Wild Earth’. It’s our year group’s contribution to our whole school ‘Great Outdoors’ focus. The starting point for the theme was taking what worked well during last year’s units of work on rivers and…
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For me, one of the most exciting effects of the new age of web technologies is its ability to give children a voice. I’m not talking about pupil voice where pupils are asked to evaluate and give feedback related to school. I’m not necessarily talking…
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With the introduction of APP (1-2, 2-3, 3-4, 4-5) and the possibility of level descriptors being updated, it is more important than ever to moderate writing effectively to inform assessments. This is usually carried out within year groups, key stages, schools and only occasionally externally…
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Voicethread is a website that allows you to comment on images, pdfs, word or excel documents and videos. You can comment through a written message, an audio recording or several other methods. Whilst you are recording you can also annotate whatever you are commenting on…
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http://www.wordle.net/ There are several other sites that offer the same or similar functionality. For simplicity, I would recommend worditout or ABCYA Word Clouds or tagcrowd. Education uses of wordle Interesting ways to use Wordle in the classroom Please share how you have used Wordle in…
