Alessio Bernardelli
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 ‘Fun’
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
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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 [...]
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 [...]
Abnormal, not normal, or Xtranormal?
Posted: July 12, 2010 in Institute of Physics, new technologies, Thoughts and ideasTags: animated, characters, comics, Creativity, creator, easy, Education, engage, engaging, extra, Fun, Innovative, learning, Network, normal, Online, Physics, publish, Pupils, revision, speed, superheroes, teaching, tool, velocity, Video, Xtranormal
You must have guessed I have a soft spot for comics and Superheroes by now. So, when @russeltarr (look at his excellent website here) twitted a link to a video made by his 14-years old Historians (as he calls them) I got immediately interested in this new video creator with animated characters; xtranormal.com. Believe me, it [...]
Building a giant Air-zooka!
Posted: November 18, 2009 in Institute of Physics, Thoughts and ideas, WorkshopsTags: Accuracy, air, Airzooka, cannon, Coordinator, Education, Enthuse, Fun, Institute, IoP, McFlurry, Network, Physics, Pupils, Reliability, rings, school, Science, smoke, South Wales, Teachers, teaching, Workshop
On the 18th November 2009 a group of Physics teachers from South Wales met in Caerleon School to build giant air cannons out of a 200 litres water butt. I organised the event with Cerian Angharad’s help (South Wales Network Coordinator) and the lovely cakes that Ann Dunster (Head of Physics at the school) provided! All [...]
