Teaching, technology and anything else on my mind…
After a fantastic first week, our ‘Myst’ work has continued with great success and incredibly high levels of motivation from the children. Here’s an outline of our work this week:
Day 6 - Travelling together with our wireless mouse and interactive whiteboard, we visited Voltaic, looking at the unusual structures and exploring the caverns. As we [...]
Phew! My first week back at school has been extremely busy, with an e-safety conference, lots of meetings, a lesson observation, and the start of something I’ve been looking forward to for a long time… using Myst to support our Literacy work!
I know that many other teachers have used Myst before, so this is not [...]
Rodd Lucier has suggested 20 ways of using Wordle (which I found via Simon Mills’ fantastic blog). I’ve tried one of these ways above… this Wordle shows the history of completed tasks from my Toodledo list. As you can see, I take backups seriously!
Simon has also posted his experiences of using Wordle in the classroom. This looks [...]
The final week of last term was a particularly hectic one, as we had parents’ consultation evenings, Harvest celebrations and a road safety day at school. This meant that we only had three mornings available for our Literacy lessons. There certainly wasn’t enough time to start a new unit of work, so I decided to [...]
One of the tools that Tim Rylands showed at the Kent ICT conference, was ‘The Hat’. This is probably the thing that I’ve used the most since the conference. I also showed it to other staff at my recent staff meeting and it’s now being used in many classrooms across the school.
The Hat (available from Harmony [...]