Hot off the press … look at twitter feed @DeputyMitchell and follow the tweets by Year 6 pupils. In case the tweets have disappeared by the time you look, here are some amazing examples from pupils at: Clayton CE Primary School, Wibsey Primary School, Miriam Lord Primary School, Swain House Primary School, Green Lane Primary Full Article…
Taccle2 Primary handbook!
Here is the first downloadable version of the new Taccle2 book ‘E-Learning for Primary Teachers. Taccle2 Primary Book.pdf No more excuses! This is a step-by-step guide to using technology to improve teaching and learning in the classroom. Many of you who use this site regularly are probably pretty e-competent by now but the hand book Full Article…
Blapp Snapp Thing Link
My last post was about using Thinglink and I posted a very quick and untested idea with a request for suggestions on how to use it. Well Julian Wood’s blog @ideas_factory has provided a great example of Thing link being used in the classroom by Wil Baker. Julian’s blog is full of great ideas and Full Article…
Thing Link
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…
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…
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…