Friday 31 July 2009

Train Maths

Train Maths
An interactive whiteboard starter to practise mental or written maths.
Click 30 or 60 to determine how long they have between new questions.

The train will arrive.
The timer will start.........
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Tuesday 7 July 2009

The iPhone / iPod touch and mobile learning

Enjoy this video from Jonathan Nalder, an Apple Distinguished Educator.

Next generation iTouch should be out in September....rumours indicate that it could include a camera and a much higher storage capacity....???Not long to wait now.






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Sunday 5 July 2009

Great resource for teaching about artists

Stories about artists...
from Mightybook-Enjoy more than 50 cool animated stories, songs, jokes, games and puzzles,



Art Gallery-Artists from the Impressionism and Post Impressionism periods. Includes information about each artist and a selection of their paintings. Display the paintings on your data projector-easy!!

Teach your students about wikis by doing at Wikijunior.


The aim of Wikijunior is to produce non-fiction books for children from birth to age twelve. These books could take the form of macropedias, textbooks or primers.

Check out Wikijunior to learn more about its policies.

You are invited to join in and write, edit, and rewrite each module and book to improve its content.
Wikijunior is a collaborative project and there are many ways to help.

There are currently more than a dozen Wikijunior books and hundreds of modules within those books being readied for publication. You can
vote here for the next titles to be developed.
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What a great game-Jeopardy

Video – Jeopardy VC Tournament Grand Final

3 07 2009

The Sydney Region of the New South Wales Department of Education and Training in Australia has been running another fantastic Jeopardy Tournament comprising 32 schools across the entire state via Video Conference! A recent State Government initiative to install a “Connected Classroom” into every school by the end of 2010 is making possible exciting opportunities that would otherwise simply not be imaginable.



Check out Stu's Double Jeopardy at my These are a few of my favourite web 2.0 things blog

Saturday 4 July 2009

Brighten up your classroom

Decorate your classroom with stimulating and FREE Classroom signs and visual timetables from Sparklebox.

If you haven't visited Sparklebox yet do yourself a favour and check it out. I have no affiliation with the site. I just think it provides terrific resources for classroom teachers.

OzProjects

Check out this SlideShare Presentation: