Love this project from one of our local teachers. Not only do primary school kids get to develop their own, unique digital portfolios that enable them to curate, organise and share their work in a variety of ways they also learn so much maths, literacy, design and IT along the way. And the only software Full Article…
iPad Orienteering with Klikaklu
As teachers, we don’t often associate IT with PE. This guest post comes from Ben Wiggins and shows you how. “Our Grade 2/3 composite classes have been involved in an iPad pilot project this year. Each class has 6 iPads in class which they can bring to specialist lessons such as PE. In PE we Full Article…
Blokify – best 3D printer idea. Ever.
Actually, the only reason why I wrote the last post ‘I want one of those’ about 3D printers was that I wanted to post this about Blokify, which actually needs a 3D printer! It is a standing joke in the Pontydysgu office that I am officially boss of toys while the rest of them get on with Full Article…
I want one of these!!
‘One of these’ being a 3D printer! Have recently been to an exhibition where there were maybe 30 stands demonstrating and selling 3D printers. Was fascinated by how different they all looked – I mean, a laptop is a laptop is a laptop, whether they have Mac styling or Acer styling or Samsung styling, they 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…
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…