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At the recent Swale ITN, Morag from Tunstall suggested we look at http://www.tutpup.com/ for encouraging pupils to practise and speed up their maths and spellings. A teacher will need to create a free account for their class, and pupils can register with...
How does your school keep parents informed, and involved, in the homework process? Do you use email to inform parents that their child has a particular homework due in on a given day or to send out homework tasks? Do you set homework tasks via a blog...
Alisa Miller @ Smartteaching.org has created a useful list of "100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques ". "Whether you are a new teacher storing up tips and tricks or an experienced teacher who could just use a fresh...
In Kent, we have many schools eager to use the computer game 'Myst', after being inspired by Tim Rylands at our recent ICT Conference. January 2009 is the official launch of Kent's writing project using the computer game Myst, when we will...
Simple interactive Flash programmes from Coventy Learning Gateway . Bingo Number Known Facts Calculations Money Problem Solving Problem Solving 2 Shape, Space and Measures Data Handling Foundation Stage Various strands Special Schools
ICT2008 Exhibition and Conference Ashford International Hotel Thursday 3 July 2008 www.eiskent.co.uk Guest speaker Tim Rylands Tim Rylands has been described as “an extremely gifted and inspirational teacher, with a love of the creative potential of technology...
Christina Laun on the College@Home blog has compiled a list of 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner . This is a very useful list and highlights the wide range of tools we have available to us to meet the needs of different “ learning styles...
We first had You Tube, then Teacher Tube and now we have Schools Tube. http://www.schoolstube.com/ (Hopefully the site is not blocked) I have been watching the Vikings this morning and also a stream in Ashford!
Sparklebox is a a fantastic place where you can download all sorts of teaching resources. All their resources are now free. Link: Sparklebox K s 1 Link: Sparklebox Ks 2
In an English activity this week 5-6 year old children use their developing understanding of context and grammatical cues to help them predict hidden words in a text. Simple turtle graphics using a freely available online application provides a mathematical...
Del.icio.us is a free social bookmarking service. Rather than saving your favourites in your browser and only being able to access them on the one computer, you save them to an online account. The social part comes in when you add other people’s accounts...
The Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008 list has now been finalised from the contributions of 155 learning professionals from education, workplace learning and continuing professional development. http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html
What does each of these national strategies tell you about the country's educational philosophy? US - No Child Left Behind UK - Every Child Matters Singapore - Teach Less, Learn More From the blog of Mike Fleetham, Thinking Classroom , For more information...
Today, we had fun playing the Space Germ game on the IWB as an end of term treat. Space Germs got a HUGE thumbs-up from the Year 4 class - they LOVED the challenge of trying to touch the aliens as they flew across the whiteboard (great for eye/hand coordination...
Short film clips that can be used to support the teaching and learning of maths. The first site contains a list of films to use plus a supporting worksheet. http://mathbits.com/MathBits/MathMovies/ResourceList.htm The following site contains a selection...
The number of applications/tools available for free online is increasing and each one is beginning to challenge / change the way we teach and learn. We are moving towards an age of online software where everyone can interact, share and/or publish in a...
Today, I would like to bring your attention to fantastic webquest that helps pupils understand the pitfalls of the intenet. The website looks, at first, to be fairly well put together and seems to be the ideal site to find out about Explorers. However...
This is your chance to find out how diet, exercise and sleep influence your class's memory and concentration levels. Teachers TV is running a mass online science experiment to investigate children’s readiness to learn as part of National Science and Engineering...
With thanks to Helen Knight, from St George's CE Primary School in Wrotham, for kindly providing the following notes from the Malling Cluster's multimedia day. Thumbnail Searchengine http://www.pagebull.com/ Excellent site. Like a google search, but thumbnails...
"Here, you'll find both 100% free content as well as premium-quality for-purchase products, courtesy of CrystalGraphics, all designed to make professional-looking websites, PowerPoint presentations and other office documents. Products include an impressive...
The Kent Learning Zone Roadshows are aimed at staff within Kent Schools who need to gain an insight into Kent's solution on how to meet the DCSF 2008 requirement , 'Every pupil to have a personal online learning space'. A personal online learning space...
BETT 2008 has thousands of educational ICT products and services on display, live demonstrations and a range of exciting show features. What impact will visiting the show have on your school? Please share with us your favourite new products/software or...
Mike Trodd, at Cecil Road Primary school, has written an easy to use guide on how to download YouTube videos using Realplayer. Videos need to be downloaded at home because YouTube is blocked at school. They can then be put onto pen drives and either re...
http://www.filmstreet.co.uk/ FilmStreet is a partnership between CBBC, British Film Institute and other publicly-funded organisations. It contains resources to support the use of media in the renewed Literacy Framework. The site aims to promote three...
We mentioned Ictopus (ICT online primary user support) back in July , and we are sure anyone who has signed up to it would agree with us, that it is a very useful resource indeed. By subscribing to Ictopus (it's FREE!), you will receive the weekly Sharing...
Advent Calendar for the Smartboard by Oxfordshire ICT http://www.ict.oxon-lea.gov.uk/home.html Textease Christmas resources http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/textease/christmas/ Build a Snowman http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/snowman_v4.html Other Kent...
Pagebull is a search engine that teachers may find useful to quickly find a good website to show to the class. When you enter a search term, the results that come back are not text, instead visual images of the website are shown on the screen. This makes...
Test your vocabulary and donate rice to the hungry simultaneously. For every word you get right, sponsors donate 10 grains of rice; you can see the rice piling up right next to the quiz. The words start off somewhat easy, and the more you get right, the...
For a collection of Powerpoint files that can easily be adapted to your own needs visit Pete's Power Point Station: http://www.pppst.com/ A link to Pete's collection and other Power Points can be found on our Power Point resources page http://www.kented...
Starting from October 15th (next week) is the K12 Online Conference . ( k12onlineconference.org/ ) The K-12 Online Conference invites participation from educators around the world interested in innovative ways Web 2.0 tools and technologies can be used...
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