#classroomorg Stash and flash
Whiteboards and pens. When children have written down whatever is to be written, ask them to stash it (h0lding the board against their chest so no one else can see). Then when time is up, ask all the...
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Get a pack of binding rings. Cut out and laminate circles on red paper, triangles on orange and squares on red. Hole punch them and make a set of 1 circle, triangle and square and fix with a ring...
View Article#classroomorg Traffic light trays
From @ohlottie http://tweecher.wordpress.com/2011/06/11/going-green-rating-your-effort/ Have 3 trays (one green for objective understood, one orange for getting there but need more help or time, one...
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A suggestion from Mike Hughes http://www.mikehughes-ets.co.uk. Build in a time during the week for children to consolidate their learning by switch classrooms and sharing what they have learnt with...
View ArticleTablet Time…
Okay, so you wouldn’t know it from the headline catching post title, but this post is not just about the hardware. Instead, it is about how I am fortunate enough to be able to implement a long term...
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RM Easimaths. Quality personalised learning.
Wow. That was my reaction when I saw RMLightbox’s RMEasimaths. Its like RM Maths online. But with oh so much more… In my work as an ICT AST I get frequent briefs based around using ICT to support...
View ArticleIBoard+ The super quick way to set quality activities.
A lot of people liked the IBoard. I have to say I never really used it much. It had lots of resources for Foundation and KS1 but not really organised in a way that made it quick to set up from a...
View ArticleA Voting System for Any Device
Most people have heard of a whole class voting system (each child having a controller linked to a response program on the ‘host’ computer). I’d wager a fair amount of people have seen one sat in a box...
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Blackberry Playbooks in the Primary Classroom – 4 months in.
If you have read this or this then you will know I have championed the strategic use of tablets in the classroom for quite a while and am lucky enough to be able to put the strategy to the test in the...
View ArticleDigital Wings
About 2 Years 2 ago we decided to move away from a traditional learning platform and build our own set of link instead. The main reasons were our provider never fulfilled the promises they gave us when...
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Progress Progress Progress…
Education has changed. 18 months ago I experienced an Ofsted inspection that appears to have been a blueprint for the new 2012 September inspections. How do I know this? Because I recently had the...
View ArticleEducreations and The Flipped Classroom
Educreations is a tool that allows teachers to create videos for children, similar to the popular showme IPad app. However Educreations is different. How? Sure it has an IPad app, but it also has a...
View ArticlePixel Press
Sometimes a tool comes a long that is so innovative, so exciting, so unique that you can’t help but be jaw droppingly in awe of it. Thanks to @Ideas_Factory for pointing out Pixel Press, as for me it...
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A Collaborative Reading System
Every teacher wants their children to develop a love of reading and be inspired by different authors. We set up our classroom with rich reading based displays, read quality texts aloud to our class,...
View Article#CrowdSourcedMaths
Click here to view and contribute! (Simply open up one of the six areas of Maths documents, then click an objective and open the link) The idea: To build a collaborative platform to support teachers in...
View ArticleWorkflow
*WARNING: This post contains materials that could be construed as the author (that would be me) being self absorbed and dangerously megalomaniacal. The reader (that would be you) accepts that if they...
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Badge It!
At the start of this year I managed to get my sticky mits on a professional badge maker from http://www.blankbadge.co.uk. Why? Well there have been ideas knocking about for some time about the use of...
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This blog post was going to be about sharing the Computing Curriculum I’ve been building. But now it’s not. You see, whilst I’m not out for self publicization, I would like people to take a look at...
View ArticleChromebooks
2 years ago marked the beginning of our journey into mobile computing, supporting each year group with a small group of devices specifically aimed at accessing internet packages. At the moment we have...
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Happy Numbers!
Happy Numbers is a great little site (growing fast!) to support children in their understanding of Maths. It’s particularly suited to KS1 / Lower KS2 learners / SEN learners in general – although the...
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