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15 February 2010 3 Comments

My Favourite Mac Apps

My Favourite Mac Apps

Following in the footsteps of Doug Belshaw and Kevin McLaughlin, I have decided to record the applications that I use on my Mac computers most often:
Daily Essentials:

Launchbar – An amazing timesaver which lets you open applications, copy and paste, perform operations, search online, find contact information and much more… all using the keyboard. Also has [...]

13 January 2010 1 Comment

Making Super Stories, Brilliant Books and more…

Making Super Stories, Brilliant Books and more…

This post was originally published here.
I’m a big fan of 2Simple’s software… this week alone, my Year 3 pupils have used:

2Connect to make mind maps showing their existing knowledge of Italy at the start of the topic.
2Paint a Picture to design logos for an Italian restaurant business that they have been challenged to create for [...]

12 June 2009 5 Comments

Our Podcasting Challenge

Our Podcasting Challenge

As part of my role, I am sometimes asked to support other schools with ICT work. This might involve training teachers or teaching demo lessons at their schools. This week, I had the challenge of going into another school and showing them how to podcast. Although I’ve been podcasting with children at my own school [...]

18 January 2009 2 Comments

I didn’t go to BETT this year, but…

I didn’t go to BETT this year, but…

As the title of this post suggests, I wasn’t able to go to BETT 2009 for one reason or another, although I have been going annually for the past eight years. However, this didn’t mean that I wasn’t able to learn about some of the new developments being shown off, or hear from those who actually [...]

30 December 2008 2 Comments

Animation Days

Animation Days

At the end of last term, when we had some time in between our Christmas celebrations, we spent a few days thinking about animation. The children have been making their own stop motion animations (using I Can Animate and iMovie) with considerable success. We’ve been making these for many years now and we seem to [...]

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