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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?
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.
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?
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…
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Teaching Themes – Myst Ideas and Resources
I am really pleased to announce the availability of the second ‘Teaching Themes‘ section on my Teaching Ideas site. Last month’s World Cup theme was incredibly popular and the resources are all still online if you would like to use them. This month, the theme is Myst: www.teachingideas.co.uk/themes/myst The Myst series of computer games can be [...]
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