6 March 2010 0 Comments

It’s not a VLE but the children love it!

It’s not a VLE but the children love it!

Since writing my ‘VLEs, MLEs, LPs… Help!‘ post, we have started using the ‘online learning portal’ that I set up. I showed it to staff in my ICT staff meeting a few weeks ago and I’ve been able to go around different Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2 classes to introduce it to the [...]

13 January 2010 2 Comments

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 [...]

7 January 2010 5 Comments

Twittering in the Snow

Twittering in the Snow

Lots of schools in the UK have had ‘Snow Days’ and have been closed this week because of the snowy weather. Luckily, our school hasn’t closed so far although we had quite a lot of snow last night. This meant that my journey to school was a little treacherous this morning. It also meant that [...]

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 [...]