Posted in Ed Technology, Me! on Jul 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
Having settled in at my new school, plans are afoot…
…it looks like I should be taking a role in expanding the use of ICT across the curriculum. I’m going to do this in conjunction with a member of the IT teaching department. I plan to focus on collecting together good practice that already takes place [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on Jul 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
Following on from my previous post about GapMinder, Hans Rosling has made another inspiring talk at a TED conference.
His use of data continues to inspire me and pushes my thoughts on using this software in the classroom. With the abolition of data handling coursework next year more time will be freed up to look [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on Jun 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
At the end of an ordinary Year 9 lesson on scatter graphs I had a flash of inspiration and remembered the fantastic Gapminder World tool courtesy of Google and Gapminder.
For the uninitiated this is a dynamic graphing package populated with a range of data about countries covering the last 30 years. You choose [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on May 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Now this is what ICT in the classroom dreams are made of!
Microsoft have announced a new coffee table styled computer that is a giant multi-touch screen. This and the new iPhone seem to be bringing multi-touch displays to the masses at last.
Obviously having this technology on our IWBs would be fantastic but imagine a [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on May 14th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m a little gob smacked and a little jealous at the news from the BBC that Knowsley council on Merseyside plan to abolish the classroom and timetable as we know it and turn all 7 of their secondary schools into learning centers personalised to each pupil.
It seems that this sort of revolution in how our [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on May 10th, 2007 No Comments »
I’m still alive, settling in to the new school has killed of blogging temporarily, I have a mountain of ideas that I intend to implement over the coming months and no-doubt blog about here.
The first of which is an updated Scheme of Work for 11-14 Maths.
To see my thoughts and a plea for help, have [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on Feb 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Wow!
Now this is an online tool with a wealth of uses for teaching maths and using in general rather than excel / windows calculator.
Instacalc is an online calculator / spreadsheet mashup. It supports sharing, and blog embedding, and intelligently interprets what you type in. Check out the blog for a walk though of [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on Feb 19th, 2007 No Comments »
(This was written as a handout to accompany the IWB Training Session I took part in, I’ve posted it here as I hope it is of use to others! It is by no means a comprehensive list, my aim was to give staff a few pointers as to where they could start looking to [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on Feb 19th, 2007 1 Comment »
So this morning we gave our training session to around 20 teachers on using Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs). We had an hour and a half, enough time to scratch the surface of what was possible but little more. Hopefully we sowed some seeds that will grow from there.
We split the session into three parts:
An example lesson [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on Jan 31st, 2007 4 Comments »
Apparently a review of IWB use in London showed little benefit to a child’s progress from the use of IWBs.
Personally I’d be mortified if mine was taken away from me, but whether it actually benefits my pupils is an interesting question.
I can see the argument that many are simply used as glorified data projectors, and [...]
