Alessio Bernardelli
TES Science is going to help learners doing their GCSE exams by setting one challenge a day until the day of the last Science exam on the 24th May. These challenges will be sent through Twitter using the hash-tag #tesSciGCSE and we are hoping you and your learners will engage with this exciting daily challenge. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘learning’
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
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 [...]
Live online revision clubs!
Posted: November 4, 2011 in new technologies, TES Resources, Thoughts and ideasTags: #croesybot, Broadcast, channel, Chat, Clubs, Creative, Croesyceiliog, Education, Hash, Innovative, John Cabot Academy, Learners, learning, Live, Livestream, Motor Effect, Online, Physics, revision, Students, Taf, Twitter
After a long period of hybernation the Croesy Physics online channel is about to become active again with a very exciting project that will see Croesyceiliog Yr13 Physics Students collaborating with learners at John Cabot Academy in Bristol to create and broadcast live online revision clubs! Helen Rogerson (@hrogerson) is John Cabot’s Head of Physics [...]
Collaboration Cross-Phase through Blogging!
Posted: October 22, 2011 in new technologies, Thoughts and ideas, UncategorizedTags: absorption, audience, Blog, blogging, Creativity, Cross-phase, Effect, Emission, Energy, feedback, Innovative, Kidblog, Kidblog.org, Learners, learning, Levels, Peer assessment, Photoelectric, Photons, Physics, PowerPoint, Pupils, Students, Yr12, Yr6
I am finally finding literally 5 minutes to catch up with a few things I have been doing since the beginning of the term and I wanted to share with you how I am using kidblog.org to create collaborative feedback between different schools and cross-phase. Our Yr12 Blog is here. I believe allowing our learners [...]
A novel about Physics?
Posted: August 31, 2011 in Institute of Physics, Thoughts and ideasTags: Aristotle, book, Creative, edu-novel, Education, Equations, Faraday, Fascinating, Fizz, Galileo, Herschel, History of Physics, Inspiring, Laws, Learners, learning, Newton, nothing as it seems, novel, Physics, Students, Zvi Schreiber
I have the great pleasure of introducing my first Guest Blogger, Zvi Schreiber, who is a really interesting Author. He looks at the teaching and learning of Physics from a very different angle with his brand new book Fizz: Nothing as it seems. Thanks Alessio for inviting me to Alessio’s Blog, to talk about why I chose [...]
Creative Story Writing with iMindMap 5!
Posted: August 9, 2011 in Mind Mapping, new technologies, Thoughts and ideas, UncategorizedTags: Audio, Clones, Creative, Darth Vader, Education, english, Han Solo, imindmap, iMindMap 5, Innovative, Learniers, learning, Leila, Light Saber, Literacy, Luke Skywalker, mind, mind map, Mind Mapping, notes, Obi Wan Kenobi, skills, star wars, Story, telling, ThinkBuzan, thinking, War, Writing, Young
In my previous post I showed the first part of my boys’ story mind map, i.e. the mind map we designed together to tell the story they were creating. We used iMindMap 5 because we wanted eventually to narrate their story by recording audio comments on branches. That turned out to be a really effective [...]
The most outrageous competition in the UK!
Posted: July 18, 2011 in Institute of Physics, Thoughts and ideasTags: Best, British, Competition, Conservation, Creative, Education, GCSE, help, Innovative, Learners, learning, Linear, mass, momentum, O2, O2 Learn, Physics, Prize, Public, Rate, revision, support, Teacher, Teachers, U.K., velocity, Video, Vote
In this Blog I invite you to support my video entry to the O2 Learn Competition for three simple reasons: 1) I believe some of the videos that are winning the Fortnightly stages give a poor representation of Education in Britain 2) Many teachers who have submitted a video are cheating by creating false accounts to gain extra [...]
Pre-school and early years Android Apps for my eee pad Transformer!
Posted: June 21, 2011 in new technologies, Thoughts and ideasTags: Android, Apps, ASUS, ASUS transformer, children, Early years, Education, eee pad, engage, engaging, Foundation Phase, Google Sky Map, Intellijoy, Key Stage 1, kids, Learners, learning, Literacy, Market, Numeracy, skills, Tablet, Transformer, Young
There are a number of really useful and FREE Pre-school and early years Android Apps that really come to life on an ASUS Transformer for various reasons and most importantly because of its size! In fact, the very first advantage of an eee pad Transformer is to have dimensions that are similar to a book, [...]
