Who said you need a class set of iPads to have a bit of fun in the classroom? In fact, with just two iPads, iPhones, or iPod Touches, or any Android tables, or smartphones by that matter, you could run a simple and fun game with an Olympic feel. Yesterday I used two iPads and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Classroom’
iPads Relay Quiz
Posted: April 19, 2012 in new technologies, Thoughts and ideasTags: learning, Learners, Fun, Classroom, Apple, iPhone, Android, iPad, Games, iPod Touch, Smartphones, Tablets, TestMaker, Quiz, Olympic
The Virtual Sky – Android apps for the Physics teacher!
Posted: December 30, 2011 in new technologies, TES ResourcesTags: Android, Apps, ASUS, BETT, BETT 2012, BETT Show, Classroom, Earth, eee pad, Google Sky Map, Gravity, My Solar System, Orbit, Physics, Planets, Science, Solar Sizer, Solar System, space, Stars, TES, Transformer
It’s been a while since my last post on Android apps for the classroom and I thought the upcoming BETT show 2012 would be a good excuse to write something about a few really interesting apps I have used to create resources about the Solar System. Another reason for blogging about this is to inform [...]
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 [...]
Office Web Apps are here!
Posted: June 12, 2010 in new technologies, Thoughts and ideasTags: 2007, 2010, Apps, Classroom, cloud, collaboration, Collaborative, contribution, Creative, Drive, Education, Educators, Excel, great, Learners, Microsoft, new, Note, Notebook, Office, One, OneNote, Point, power, PowerPoint, Pupils, school, share, sharing, Sky, Skydrive, Teachers, technologies, tool, Web, Word, worldwide
A couple of days ago Microsoft has launched Office Web Apps and this is great news for Educators. In fact, this is a great tool to enhance collaboration in the classroom, at home for collaborative projects that go beyond teaching time and even to collaborate with other classes worldwide! Not only you can create and [...]
Convection Crazy!
Posted: February 16, 2010 in Institute of Physics, Thoughts and ideas, WorkshopsTags: ASE, Classroom, Cold, Conference, Convection, Coordinators, Creativity, current, Demonstration, Density, Education, Energy, Gas, Heat, Hot, Institute of Physics, IoP, Liquid, Network, Nottingham University, PhysEd, Physics, Physics Education, Water, Workshops
Here is a lovely classroom demonstration that I saw at the ASE Conference 2010 in Nottingham. The demo was part of the Physics Education Lecture, which displayed the best of the PhysEd magazine. I really learned a lot and was well impressed by the quality and creativity of the demonstrations, activities and workshops proposed by [...]













