Topic – Reporting: What do you tell parents and when? I had the really nice role of moderating the #addcym discussion group on Twitter tonight. If you don’t know what #addcym is, you should try to spare the hour between 8-9 on a Tuesday evening and search for the hash tag #addcym on twitter! To [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Educators’
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 [...]
Mind Mapping with Prezi!
Posted: November 23, 2010 in Institute of Physics, new technologies, NGfL Cymru, Thoughts and ideasTags: brain, conduction, Convection, Creative, Education, Educators, Gas, heat transfers, ideas, Innovative, Institute of Physics, IoP, Kinetic, Learners, learning, mind, mind map, NGfL Cymru, particles, Physics, PowerPoint, Prezi, revision, skills, teaching, Theory, thinking, tool, Wales
At last I have found some time to check Prezi out, and it’s even better when you can use this time to fit it in with your job. As a Field Officer at NGfL Cymru, I am trying to develop resources that give opportunities to learners and educators to explore the latest technology and its [...]
My first TeachMeet!
Posted: October 14, 2010 in Institute of Physics, new technologies, Thoughts and ideasTags: animations, Apple, Creativity, Education, Educators, Gloucestershire, google, learning, Macros, Microsoft, NGfL, NGfLCymru, Partners in learning network, PowerPoint, PPT, Prezi, Pupils, Reader, Students, talkphysics, teaching
I attended my very first TeachMeet in Cheltenham at the Parabola Arts Centre (Cheltenham Ladies’ College) and it was a worthwhile experience. There were not as many teachers as I would have expected/hoped, but it was still a great opportunity to network with like minded educators and to see some great stuff in action. The [...]
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 [...]
Deep Zoom and Reproduction
Posted: November 11, 2009 in new technologies, Thoughts and ideas, Torfaen Innovative Teachers CommunityTags: collaboration, Collaborative, Communication, Community, Community Clips, Composer, Deep Zoom, Education, Educators, Independence, Innovative, Interdependence, Knowledge, Learners, learning, Reproduction, Science, skills, TASC, Teachers, thinking
I have always been excited by the amazing potential of Deep Zoom in Education ever since I was given a demonstration by Stuart Ball (Microsoft Innovative Teachers Network, @innovativeteach on Twitter), when he showed me what the Hard Rock Cafe’ did for it’s Memorabilia. I tried to use the Deep Zoom Composer across the network [...]













