Alessio Bernardelli
Today was the first day of NGfL Cymru‘s presence at the Skills Cymru (Cardiff Millenium Stadium) and we were showing ourFree Vocational resources and our links with National Learning Network (NLN) to teachers and students. We were also engaging the children who stopped at our stand with some fun activities, like building walls with Lego [...]
Archive for September, 2010
Making Paper/Plastic Cup Loudspeakers @ Skills Cymru with NGfL Cymru
Posted: September 16, 2010 in Institute of Physics, NGfL Cymru, Thoughts and ideas, WorkshopsTags: Burger, courses, Creative, cymru, Electromagnetic, EM, for, Fun, grid, induction, Institute, IoP, king, learning, magnet, McDonalds, Millenium, national, neodymium, Network, NGfL, nln, Physics, resources, skills, Stadium, Starbucks, vocational, Wales
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The Innovative Educators Forum 2011
Posted: September 13, 2010 in new technologies, Thoughts and ideasTags: awards, collaborate, Conference, connect, connecting, Creativity, Educator, forensic, forum, Innovation, Innovative, Network, partners, Physics, PowerPoint, PPTplex, resources, Science, Teachers
The 7th Microsoft Innovative Education Forum is a one-day conference, free of charge to all teachers and educators who wish to attend and will look to address the theme of ‘Connecting Learners, Connecting Teachers.’ This forum aims to connect Teachers with Teachers, Educators with Educators. Allowing you to share expertise and learn from each other. [...]
A journey through the mind?
Posted: September 8, 2010 in Thoughts and ideasTags: book, brain, charity, Creative, Education, genius, learning, map. Tony Buzan, mapping, memory, mind, Mind Maps, oxfam, planning, remember, rules, Students, tool
I had always thought I understood what a mind map was and that I was drawing effective mind maps until my eye was caught by a second hand book in the Oxfam Charity shop in Cardigan (West Wales). Little did I know at the time that the book I was holding in my hands was [...]
Amazing Physics Mind Maps!
Posted: September 7, 2010 in new technologies, Thoughts and ideasTags: 2007, beautiful, buzan, clips, Community, Community Clips, Creativity, Education, fields, imindmap, learning, magnetic, magnets, map, mind, Mind Maps, Office, Office 2007, Physics, Point, power, PowerPoint, Students
When I wrote the blog post on my top 5 list of features in Office 2007 I mentioned INK for Office 2007 as one of them and one of the reasons I like it so much is that you can use it in PowerPoint to create very nice mind maps that blend beautifully your own [...]
Now you see it, now you don’t!
Posted: September 4, 2010 in Institute of Physics, Thoughts and ideasTags: air, children, clever, coin, Creative, Education, Fun, glass, Innovative, internal, lesson, light, magic, media, normal, optical, optics, outstanding, Physics, reflection, refraction, simple, spellbound, starter, total, Water
I saw this “Magic trick” performed as a lesson starter by one of the best Student Teachers I have ever observed, Bethan Rowland-Jones, who was at the time a Student Teacher in Swansea University. The lesson was an introduction to light aimed at an audience of yr 8 pupils and, as you can see from [...]
Not in the classroom! Where am I?
Posted: September 2, 2010 in new technologiesTags: assembly, Creative, cymru, development, e-chalk, echalk, field, for, fund, government, grid, ibw, Innovative, interactive, learning, national, new, NGfL, officer, resources, school, teaching, technology, Wales, welsh, whiteboard
Yesterday it was quite strange not to walk in a classroom for my first day of work. After teaching for six years I am seconded for a year to work with National Grid for Learning in Wales (NGfL Cymru) as a Field Officer. I feel excited and refreshed to be part of this valuable and [...]
