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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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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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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…
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Today our school was closed due to the weather, so I decided better put my money where my mouth is and create an online lesson for the children whilst they were off. I decided to take the opportunity to try and make the lesson as…
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Following on from our Armada Tudor theme, for the 3 weeks preceding Christmas we switched our attention to Macbeth. Our Literacy focus was Year 4 Plays with lots of speaking & listening, performance and development of adverbs (through stage directions). The main resource that was…
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All videos I have created are hosted at www.vimeo.com/primarypete. Support videos for Primary/Elementary school teachers on collaborative projects started on primarypete.net. The album also contains general videos related to teaching and learning such as teachmeet presentations. Web 2.0 Album: Support videos for non-techie Primary/Elementary school…
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http://www.yourfonts.com Font capture allows you to download a straightforward template which you fill in with someone’s handwriting. Then you simply scan in the template, upload it and it will automatically create a font for you. I used this recently to create a font for each…
