There is a great website called, helpfully, agoogleaday.com You will be asked for your Google+ log in but even if you don’t have one, you can still play the basic game. Each day there is a new question and you are timed to see how fast you can get the right answer using Google. If Full Article…
Movies with Moovly
Moovly is another neat way of making fun animations, presentations and posters. Record what you want to say then use the ready made clip arts to illustrate. You can upload your own pictures too. Use it to record explanations of theories or concepts in physics, to describe chemical processes or to tell some science history Full Article…
Scoop.it
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…
Rewordify
Ideas for using this in the classroom…. Ask pupils to rewrite a story they are studying for a much younger age group, using rewordify to help. Use rewordify in English Language lessons. Let the slower readers use rewordify to save them having to use a dictionary Have a competition between groups to simplify a piece Full Article…
Kids can’t use computers…and this is why it should worry you!
A thought provoking post I read a couple of weeks ago by teacher Marc Scott who says”The phone rang through to my workroom. It was one of the school receptionists explaining that there was a visitor downstairs that needed to get on the school’s WiFi network. iPad in hand I trotted on down to the Full Article…
Diving into Game-Based Learning
This is a great idea from primary school teacher Ian Addison. He used with 7 to 8 year olds but it could easily be adapted for older children. I have mentioned Ian in a few other posts – he writes an excellent blog full of interesting stuff he is doing with technology in his own classroom. Check Full Article…