Alessio Bernardelli
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
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The Fantastic 4 at the Innovative Education Forum 2010
Posted: December 2, 2010 in new technologies, NGfL CymruTags: Creative, Dan Roberts, Education, forum, Gareth Ritter, Innovative, Inspiring, Jennifer Blum, Jo Debens, Learners, learning, Livestream, Louise Dorrian, Michael Furdyk, Microsoft, NGfL Cymru, Office, OneNote, PowerPoint, Sugata Mitra, teaching, technology
It was a great privilege to be at the Innovative Education Forum at the beginning of this week. It all began with a very inspiring Innovative Teachers Meeting. A very informal gathering for all who wanted to be inspired and make new links, talk about Education with great Educators and indeed join the craved Chicken [...]
Not in the classroom! Where am I?
Posted: September 2, 2010 in new technologiesTags: assembly, Creative, cymru, development, e-chalk, echalk, field, for, fund, government, grid, ibw, Innovative, interactive, learning, national, new, NGfL, officer, resources, school, teaching, technology, Wales, welsh, whiteboard
Yesterday it was quite strange not to walk in a classroom for my first day of work. After teaching for six years I am seconded for a year to work with National Grid for Learning in Wales (NGfL Cymru) as a Field Officer. I feel excited and refreshed to be part of this valuable and [...]
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 [...]
Be a Reported for the day!
Posted: December 11, 2009 in new technologies, Thoughts and ideas, Torfaen Innovative Teachers CommunityTags: BETT, Bots, collaboration, Collaborative, Developers, Education, Gadgets, google, Google Wave, Innovation, Innovative, National Education Network, News, Physics, Report, Reporter, Students, technology, Wave, Yr12
We were thrilled to receive an email today to tell us myself and three of my Yr12 Students have been invited to BETT to receive our prize for the “Be a Reporter for the day” competition organised by the National Education Network. They competition invited schools to submit a news report about how they are [...]
Using Wallwisher to build collaborative notes!
Posted: November 4, 2009 in new technologiesTags: collaboration, Education, notes, revision, shared, technology, wallwisher
I got this fantastic online resource from Dan Roberts (@chickensaltash on twitter) who blogged about some fantastic work his pupils did with it! Dan’s blog So, here is how I used it so far! I got my pupils in yr 10 to split into nine groups and develop a 5W activity on energy resources. Each [...]
A new way to process your emails!
Posted: October 17, 2009 in new technologiesTags: action items, add-in, e-mail, e-mails, emails, fast, inbox, nubli, organise, Outlook, priority, processing, technology, work
The Nubli add-in for Outlook: Nubli is a new add-in for Outlook that allows you to process and organise your inbox in a smart and quick way. It automatically analyses your emailing history and sets priorities and groups your emails in priority sets. You can also customize these priorities and prioritize your contacts. All this [...]
Innovative Teachers in Torfaen, Wales
Posted: August 31, 2009 in Torfaen Innovative Teachers CommunityTags: Croesyceiliog, Education, Educator, Innovation, Innovative Teachers, Innovative Teachers Forum, ITF, ITN, Learner, new technologies, One Note, OneNote, Photo Story, Photosynth, Pupil Voice, school, teaching, technology, Torfaen, West Mon
Hi, It’s nearly been a year of Innovative Teachers in Torfaen and I though it’s just the right time to blog about our past experiences and successes. How and Why we started! It all began when Torfaen LEA in collaboration with Microsoft ITN asked me to put together a community of Innovative Teachers from the [...]
The effects of technology in a 10 year old boy
Posted: August 28, 2009 in UncategorizedTags: 21st century skills, Blog, blogging, Education, google, ICT, learning, search engine, skills, technology, thinking, web log, X-box
Hi, This is my first blog ever, so I thought it’s just fair to have as a subject the person that introduced me to Web Logging, my 10 year old nephew. As an Educator with a passion for new technologies, I enjoy watching the behavious of my nephew as he uses technology in his personal [...]
