Memes – cute cats or powerful learning tool
It would be tempting to see memes as just cute cat and celebrity pictures with a caption. But memes, like s much of the discussion around using ICT in learning … Continue reading
Watch YouTube Safely
Youtube us a powerful learning tool and the second biggest search engine on the planet. It has so many amazing possibilities but for classroom use the “guff” down the … Continue reading
Inspiring Deeper Thinking
Placing mobile devices in the hands of our students gives them access to amazing resources – videos, paintings, sculptures, cartoons, podcasts not to mention the information available on thousands of … Continue reading
Giving voice to images
In his painting “Apparition of a Face and a Fruit Dish” Salvador Dali appears to give his painting a face. What was once only in the imagination of an artist … Continue reading
Why I love the camera on my iPad…….and you should too.
The more I work with students of all ages and iPads the more I reflect on just how useful the camera is as a tool for student learning. Believe it or … Continue reading
Searching that fits
As teachers, we want to inspire and enable our students of all ages to be collectors of information and the WWW is an amazing resource…..but we don’t want our students … Continue reading
Three Nifty Apps
Here are three apps you might like to try for no other reason than that sometimes fun apps can be really useful in the classroom. Make Dice $2.99 – every … Continue reading
Formative Assessment – a simple tool to help
We know that getting quick and accurate data during our teaching is vital to responding to student needs and guiding our practice. Does everyone “get it”? Do I need to … Continue reading
What did you do on the holidays?
When you were student do you remember the first day of school. The excitement of seeing your friends, meeting your new teachers, the magical smell of books that had never been used … Continue reading