Picture description in English lessons with iPads

During the last weeks we had the chance to use iPads in our lessons. In the English lessons I had an easy and successful start with the use of the App “Keynote”, the integrated camera and the big picture books of our daughter (Wimmelbücher). These books are made of painted pictures with witty scenes from Full Article…

Mindomo

Building and rebuilding concept maps and sharing them with others is a great reflective activity. The Mindomo application can facilitate this habit of reflective thinking, while it can play a social role by discussing and building shared maps. From my experience, concept maps in science, mainly with abstract concepts, centre attention on a few important Full Article…

Simulations

Click to Run I believe that the use of animations and simulations, like those from PhET, enables the manipulation of parameters and variables in different combinations, and facilitates the questioning of some issues, the systematic study of the causal relationship between variables, the formulation of alternative hypotheses and basis for conclusions. The exploration of a Full Article…

Wiki it!

Prós: Progressing from a linear logic to an interactive one using Wikis in the classroom could lead to new approaches to aggregate, review and edit content contributing to the creation of learning situations that help to build knowledge. This Web 2.0 tool enables collaboration and information sharing, maximizing collaborative work in the classroom. Some of the Full Article…

Haiku Deck

Have just been looking at Jeroen Hendrick’s blog mediaatelier. Jeroen is one of the Taccle team but also has his own website and there are some great posts on there. It’s in Dutch but it took me about ten minutes to run his category list through Google translate, click on a category I fancied, find a Full Article…

Reading bags

Having great fun over the last few weeks trying to produce audio kits for primary classroom ‘reading corners’. I found this picture ages ago on Pinterest and have been meaning to try it out. (If anyone recognises it, please comment and tell us whose idea it was so that we can thank them properly). My Full Article…