Love this app – only just discovered it so working out how I might use it in the classroom. This picture was just one I had to hand – it’s the cover of a book written by Nic Daniels (who co-authors this site!). Roll over the picture and find the hotspots – they have a Full Article…
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QR Literacy
Great post from David Mitchell – thanks to him and his year 6 pupils. He says: “Today I introduced pupils to QR codes and after 5 minutes they knew exactly what to do. We talked about what we could do with them and amongst other things we discussed how great it would be to link Full Article…
Picture vocabulary
Just a very quick idea for teaching foreign language vocabulary – give children a series of words and ask them to type each one into Google images. Work out what the word means from the pictures. If you want to extend this activity, download one of the pictures and add it to a scrapbook programme Full Article…
A Google a Day: Efficient searching.
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…
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…
Singing Fingers – lets you finger paint with sound!
Another fun-classic from Eric Rosenbaum and Jay Silver. Have been driving my family nuts over the weekend painting music with Singing Fingers (well, I think it sounds musical!). This could be the answer to teaching reluctant primary pupils the basics of composition. And if it doesn’t – who cares?? It’s a fabulous exploration of synthesis Full Article…
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