Those of you who use the Taccle2 site regularly will notice we have a new feature on the right hand toolbar. This pulls in the last 6 websites posted on the Taccle2 Scoop.it feed. It is an easy way to create links to pages we think teachers might find useful without having to write a Full Article…
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Create your own app!
OMG! It’s official – I am an app developer. I have been playing with a gem of a program from MIT called App Inventor. It’s free, easy to use and I’ll let you know how kids get on with it next week. Meanwhile, this kid is having a ball playing with it. Basically, you build Full Article…
Geo Field Trip.
New ideas for using Twitter in the classroom appear daily. Regardless of the activity, we recommend that you have a separate school Twitter account. In this activity, we used Twitter and Google Earth to challenge students to get to know their locality better. Why not… Discover local sites of historic interest on www.historypin.com The Activity Full Article…
Interactive Whiteboards
Nic and I are sitting here trying to write an article on interactive whiteboards for a project called Learn 2 Teach. As we are researching it, I thought I might add some links to the sites we have been looking at. We have found a good beginners’ site “Top tips for choosing and using your Full Article…
Give students a voice with Flipgrid
Flipgrid is an interesting application for asynchronous communication. It was developed by the LT Media Lab at the University of Minnesota. Flipgrid allows a teacher (or account holder) to post a short written question and students can answer that question with a video message that is limited to 90 seconds. All the video responses end Full Article…
Teacher Safety Online
One of the questions we get asked most by teachers is regarding internet safety and using social media responsibly. Of course, no teacher wants students to see pictures of him the worse for wear after a night down the pub (#awkward), swanning around on Tenerife in a mankini (we’re not judging) or Morris Dancing (now we Full Article…
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