Not really e-learning but thought I’d share this anyway – a great idea for really understanding how old trees are as well as getting some sense of history. You could hype it up a bit by getting the birds in the tree tweeting to each other about what they could see at any point in 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…
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…
Planet Qej
I think Chris Leach invented this but I’ve used it and it’s fabulous! Get the children to set up twitter accounts using the names of robots from Planet Qej. The robots are landed by space capsule somewhere on Planet Earth with a mission to collect data about this unknown planet. Teacher is mission control back Full Article…