Archive for the ‘Tools’ Category

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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Questionnaires Take 2 with Twitter, Google Forms & Wallwisher

I had an observation lesson today and decided to pull out all the technology tricks!  We happened to be at a point in the scheme of work looking at data handling and collecting data in particular.  I decided I’d develop the Questionnaires lesson which I used at interview last year.  60 minutes should be enough [...]

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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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Google Wave – Directory of Educators

I will post my first impressions of Google Wave soon, in the meantime we have started building a directory of educators who are using Wave at the moment.  This can be found here.

Technorati Tags: directory, education, educators, Google, Google Wave, teachers

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