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 [...]
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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
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
Are pupils better as viewers, or producers?
Posted: February 20, 2010 in new technologies, Thoughts and ideas, Torfaen Innovative Teachers CommunityTags: collaboration, Creative, Creativity, Education, EM, Innovation, Innovative, Livestream, Maker, Movie, new technologies, Physics, PowerPoint, Procaster, revision, Spectrum, technology, TV, Yr 10
You can now watch a preview of our Yr 10 EM Spectrum “TV Show” directly from this blog. The section we are showing below is part of the EM Spectrum News Report. If you want to watch the whole show click here. Please, also take a look at my previous post about this show for [...]
Do kids learn much from a TV show? Well, yes when it’s them producing it!
Posted: December 18, 2009 in Institute of Physics, new technologies, Thoughts and ideas, Torfaen Innovative Teachers CommunityTags: Broadcast, channel, collaboration, Collaborative, Community Clips, E.M., Education, Electromagnetic, EM, engage, Innovative, Learners, learning, Live, Livestream, Microsoft, Movie Maker, Network, Office 2007, Partners in Learning, Photo Story, Physics, PowerPoint, Procaster, Pupils, Show, Songsmith, Spectrum, Streaming, Teachers, teaching, technology, TV, Video, Yr10
A few weeks ago I introduced the E.M. Spectrum to my yr 10 classes (14-15 years old) by asking them to produce activities that we would broadcast on our very own online “TV” channel http://www.livestream.com/croesyphysics Needless to say they were very excited by the idea, especially because they were given complete choice on the type [...]













