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eLearning Newsletter Issue 3 – Google Maps & Earth Special

I have just completed the second edition of the SHS E-Learning Newsletter.  This issue’s focus was:

Google Maps/Earth Special!
MFL – Street View
History – Historical Imagery
Science – Tours of the World
Maths – Collaborative Maps
Further Reading / Ideas

Check it out here, or sign up for the next edition over on the right in the [...]

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Twitter in the classroom rocks!

Following yesterday’s use of Twitter in the classroom, I was walking to Period 5 (same class as yesterday) after lunch, when inspiration struck.  I remembered this post from @tombarrett .
Go and read it.
Go on!
I threw my lesson plan out of the window and did exactly what Tom did, here are the replies: (click through for them all)

This caused [...]

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Home Access – Free Computers & Internet for Low Income Families

Gordon Brown finally announced the Home Access programme last week. Organised by Becta this scheme will provide 270,000 households with a voucher that is redeemable for a computer along with 1 year’s Internet access, a suite of software and also support.

Families will be eligible if they have a child in Years 3-7, they have not been [...]

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Writing a HTML E-Learning Newsletter

Well the cold snap in the UK has given me the first two days of 2010 school year sat at home in front of the fire.  I’ve been really busy of late so it’s been good to get some time to concentrate on my E-Learning role.
I have been meaning to write an E-Learning newsletter for [...]

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Augmented Reality Maths – Your Ideas Please

I attended a SSAT training day today about ensuring Maths progress for all. This included a 30 minute section about using IT within Maths. During this Paul Hynes from the SSAT demonstrated an augmented reality program that the Trust are currently working on.
For those new to the term Augmented Reality it involves overlaying [...]

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Google Wave – First Impressions for Schools

Well you can’t have missed the fact that Google has finally unleashed Google Wave to 100,000 lucky testers, and with it a tsunami of hype.  I was lucky enough to be one of the 100,000 first wave.  Enough of the puns, if you want a bytesize explanation of what Wave is then this video is [...]

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