The project TACCLE2 was kindly invited to attend the Seminar PDW for Arts and Culture that will take place in Corfu, this week. We will have the opportunity to lead a workshop for teachers of arts and culture based on our Culture and Performing Arts book. The activities with technology will be tested with teachers coming from Full Article…
Augmented Reality Apps
Follow the link below for a great list of the best augmented reality apps available. We’ve already waxed lyrical about Aurasma but here you’ll find quite a few more that could inspire and amuse! Enjoy! http://emrefirat.edublogs.org/2014/07/26/augmentedreality/
Dissemination workshop
Dissemination workshop at Santarém, Portugal, in the TIC@Portugal’14. A national event for teachers! Good reactions!! “I can do it with for promoting reading!”; “I can adjust difficulty level for different pupil levels…”…
Humanities Handbook
Handbooks are coming out thick and fast as we approach the final straight in the Taccle 2 project. The Humanities book has just come back from the layout artist and we are happy to share a downloadable pdf version with you. As with the other books, at some point in the future we intend updating Full Article…
Solar Roadways
Aled, one of my teacher friends who reviewed the STEM book, pointed out that the ‘E’ bit (for Engineering) was a bit under represented on the website and in the book. (Aled trained as an engineer and now teaches Design and Technology which was why he felt aggrieved). By way of reassurance to Aled and Full Article…
STEMbites
We really like a new series of on-line STEM resources called STEMbites. Andrew Vanden Heuvel has created them by wearing Google glasses to ‘see’ the world in terms of the maths and science in his environment. They are best suited to 11 – 14 year olds but simple enough for primary children as long as Full Article…