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Discover educational apps with Teaching Appz!

Discover our latest website – Teaching Appz… it’s a directory of educational apps that can be used in the classroom, on a range of devices including iPod Touch, iPhone, iPad, Android and more.

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16 iOS Apps for Schools

Do you use iOS devices in your classroom? Read this to discover 15 fantastic educational apps that can support learning!

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10 Evernote Uses for Teachers

Do you use Evernote? Here are 10 ways that I use this great (free) program. How else could it be used in the classroom?

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BETT 2011 Review

Read a review of this year’s BETT event, with links to lots of videos, photos and teacher’s accounts of their visits.

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Things I’ve discovered on Twitter recently (18/11/10)

Discover a wide range of new resources that have been gathered from the wonderful items that people share via Twitter. Which one will be your new favourite?

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QR codes in the Classroom

Do you know what QR codes are? Could you use them to extend learning in your classroom? Find some useful ideas, tips and resources in our handy summary…

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Free sounds to use in the classroom

Alan McKinney from SoundScalpel has kindly contributed a large collection of sound effects to Teaching Ideas. You can download these sounds and use them in your classroom for: Adding atmosphere to lessons, Assemblies, School performances, Adding sound to children’s ICT / multimedia work, Addition to a school website / VLE. www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/dramasoundeffects.htm I’ve also recently discovered www.freesfx.co.uk which [...]

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Interactive Whiteboard Tips

Stuart Ridout has started a useful collection of tips for teachers with interactive whiteboards in their classroom. The tips are all contributed by teachers using Twitter. Simply search for #iwbtips on Twitter to see the latest tips. Here are a small collection of the contributions so far: Make sure iwb is accessible-installed at a proper [...]

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Free Resources from Futurelab

Here are some details about new free resources from Futurelab: Education Eye Education Eye is a free, engaging and easy-to-use online space that gives access to a wide range of useful and relevant innovations across educations’ varied communities. Connecting people with innovative uses of digital technology, new resources and new approaches to teaching and learning [...]

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New Education Apps

EducationApps have been busy building lots of new iPhone and iPod Touch apps for use in education. Here are some of their latest additions: Ultimate Times Tables – A fun way for children of all ages to learn their times tables. This has four different types of tests and allows up to five users to [...]

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