Alessio Bernardelli
I had the great pleasure of meeting a fellow Italian at Collabor8 4 Change during BETT 2011 who introduced me to one of the most innovative ideas I have come across recently, Dabblerr. Silvia Lombardo (silvia@dabblerr.com) is the Vice President of Communication e Co-Founder and this is what she says about Dabblerr: “At Dabblerr you have [...]
Archive for January, 2011
Dabblerr – the ultimate personalization of learning?
Posted: January 27, 2011 in new technologies, Thoughts and ideasTags: Apurv Mishra, BETT, BETT 2011, Collabor8 4 change, Dabblerr, Education, Learners, learning, Personalized, personalizing, TED
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“Vital” CPD brought to your home!
Posted: January 25, 2011 in new technologies, NGfL Cymru, Thoughts and ideasTags: CPD, Education, Elluminate, EM Spectrum, Initiative, Innovative, Learners, learning, Live, Livestream, NGfL Cymru, Physics, Procaster, Pupils, Show, steve bunce, Teachers, Teachnology, TV, Vital, Workshop
Last night I had the great pleasure and privilege to give an online workshop on Livestream and how my Yr10 classes used it to produce a “TV Show” on the EM Spectrum on our Croesy Physics TV channel (you can read more information about the project here). The CPD was organised by the great @stevebunce [...]
Science Rap! Start to clap…
Posted: January 18, 2011 in Institute of Physics, Thoughts and ideasTags: Hands on Science, Learners, learning, Literacy, Models, Physics, Poems, Pupils, rap, Rhymes, Science, skills, Students, thinking, Tools, Understanding
This sound like a really interesting competition. Get your kids to Rap about Science! Writing poem, rhymes and songs is a really engaging way for students to remember and understand Science concepts more deeply. In fact, writing a song which has certain parameters and with rhymes is a fantastic tool that helps learners to develop [...]
The Guardian Classroom Innovation Awards Winners
Posted: January 18, 2011 in Awards, new technologies, Thoughts and ideasTags: active learning, ASUS, awards, children, Classroom, Classroom Innovation, Community Clips, Creative, Creativity, Education, Educators, EM, engage, engaging, Guardian, Innovation, Innovative, Learners, Livestream, Movie Maker, Parents, Photo Story, Physics, Procaster, Pupils, Science, Show, Songsmith, Spectrum, Students, technology
I am sooooo pleased to announce that the fantastic online TV show our Yr10 pupils produced last year, the one and only “EM Spectrum Show“, was awarded first prize at the Guardian Classroom Innovation Awards at BETT 2011! My Yr10 students put together a really creative programme of resources that we used to broadcast live [...]
What a day at BETT 2011!
Posted: January 14, 2011 in new technologies, NGfL Cymru, Thoughts and ideasTags: Android, ASUS, awards, BETT, BETT 2011, BrainPOP, Classroom, Collabor8 4 change, Creativity, Education, Educators, Guardian, hand held, Innovation, Inspiring, iPad, iPhone app, Laptops, Learners, learning, Microsoft, NGfL Cymru, Pupils, Saltash.net, Scholastic, Tables, Tablet Netbooks, Takeover, TeachMeet, Thinking Tools, Tim and Moby, Vital, Web2.0
After a whole and very intense day at BETT 2011 I am really shuttered, but I am so excited and inspired about the great things I have seen and the great Educators I could network with that I feel compelled to blog about the Thursday at BETT 2011! The day started off by finding good [...]
Oops, we did it again!
Posted: January 11, 2011 in Institute of Physics, new technologies, NGfL Cymru, Thoughts and ideasTags: ASUS, BETT, Broadcast, Classroom, Creative, Croesy Physics, Croesyceiliog School, Education, EM, Guardian, Innovation, Innovative, learning, Live, Livestream, Physics, Spectrum
I am very proud and privileged to announce that Croesyceiliog School, for the second time in a row, will be represented at BETT for the great and innovative work its pupils produced in Physics. Last year our Yr12 students received a laptop each for their great News Report on how we used Google Wave to [...]
Refraction Index Magic!
Posted: January 6, 2011 in Institute of Physics, Thoughts and ideasTags: beaker, Croesy, Croesyceiliog, Demonstration, Disappear, Education, Glycerine, jelly, Jonathan Wallace, learning, light, magic, marbles, NQT, optics, Physics, polymer, refraction, school, Science, Steve Spangler, superabsorbent, test tube
It is quite amazing what you can learn by a simple visit to your old school (well I am on a Secondment, so it is still my school…). And it is quite scary, because I got this really cool demonstration by the guy who is covering me for this year and I am starting to [...]
