It has been interesting to see all the different ways innovative teachers have operated in the past few days due to school closures and snow. Services such as Twitter have come into their own as crowdsources devices for ideas ad reflections, and this post highlights some that I found very useful.
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Snow – When the school is more than the building
January 13th, 2010 by admin
Tags: crowdsourcing, innovation, pooling resources, sharing, snow, teaching, uksnow
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Aspiration in the classroom – what is normality?
November 21st, 2009 by admin
I have a sofa in the corner of my classroom. It looks very comfortable but every so slightly out of place. It is used to hear children read, and also to read to children from. I have a colleague who can’t stand it, but it is one thing in my classroom I won’t concede. In [...]
Class Jingles – wake those braincells!
October 15th, 2009 by admin
A previous post has already coverer a passion for using music in the classroom, via the use of themes. Research has shown that using music has a genuine effect on mood, and where better to utilise this power than in the classroom? I only recently discovered a brilliant piece of freeware from Michas Kaesper called [...]
Seven quick reasons why Edmodo is great
September 23rd, 2009 by admin
1. Dialogue online and offline Students are using Edmodo to debate, and this is encouraging good debate and reasoning skills with their neighbours, as they type. 2. Blurred Formality By being able to send messages around a subject, Edmodo removes the Fear – of a wrong answer. 3. Shh -out it out! The quietest, physically [...]
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How can ‘The Wire’ encourage pupils to put their hands up?
September 1st, 2009 by admin
Inspiration can come from anywhere. I was watching an episode of ‘The Wire’ the other day, from Season Four (based loosely around Baltimore’s education system), and saw a teacher use a device that I haven’t ever seen before. Pupils were holding up group shapes (a moon, star etc), rather than just their hands. No explanation [...]
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Criteria for assessing the benefits of new social tools within an education context
March 19th, 2009 by admin
It is incredibly hard to keep up-to-date with the growing number of intersting, intelligent and diverse social tools available under the umbrella of Web 2.0 applications. When meeting something new for the first time, it can be so overwhelming that it is hard to see any useful connection to education. At other times, the tool can be so suited to education, that more subtle uses can slip through the mental net.
Tags: communicate, context, criteria, online, reflect, share, simple, social tools
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Etherpad – group documents and evolving digital ownership
March 16th, 2009 by admin
Overview of Etherpad Etherpad is a digital document creator, created and supported by AppJet Inc, a Californian company, which allows up to eight users at any one time to create, edit and delete the text on a document in real time. Think of a group activity where you ask children to brainstorm on one sheet [...]
Tags: communicate, document, etherpad, evolve, KS2, ownership, Web 2.0
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