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An introduction to spreadsheets An interactive resource based on a simple school shop accounts that introduces the basic concepts of a spreadsheet including simple formulae. The resource demonstrates through animation the main parts of the spreadsheet...
Schools entering the Next Generation Learning National Schools Quiz , which will take place on Friday 12 th March, could win up to £3,000 worth of ICT equipment or training for their school, plus there are fantastic spot prizes for successful individuals...
Your students are already using technology as part of their daily life and increasingly expect to use it for learning in school. But what does this mean for you as a teacher? As a 21st century teacher you are a learner yourself – adapting your previous...
Chinese New Year is fast approaching, 14th February, (the first weekend of the holiday). The Kent ICT Chinese New Year pages have been updated for 2010. The Hong Bow is now available in a low ink use version . The old red background version is still available...
Students equipped with their own laptop demonstrate higher achievement and increased engagement, according to the findings of studies published in the Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment. All of the studies found that students in the 1:1 settings...
Visualisers have been around for quite sometime now, but with the recent drop in price, many schools and Partnerships are now buying them to compliment the use of interactive whiteboards. A visualiser, at its simplest, is a video camera mounted on a stand...
Fiona Aubrey-Smith, Head of Educational Development, UniServity has the following suggestions for using your learning platform effectively and making parental engagement meaningful which go beyond the sharing of pupil attainment and attendance data: ...
The old Ready Register did not work with all school networks. There were schools who wanted to try the register but could not get it to work. With this in mind I've been working on a simpler version. This revised version works on networked computers...
Mark Warner , teacher at The Downs School has put together a fantastic search tool for teachers looking for lesson plans, resources and ideas. http://www.teachrsearch.co.uk/ Mark also runs several over very useful sites for teachers: Teaching Ideas –...
As a part of the restructuring of KCC web resources the KentNGfL web site will be moving. The majority of the content will stay the same. The web site address will be different. If you have links to any of the resources on your web site or have the KentNGfL...
A review of studies of online learning has suggests: Learners who took all or part of their class online perform better than just face-to-face Combining face-to-face and online is more effective than purely online or face-to-face Learners online spent...
Our congratulations to Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre, Tenterden (joint runner up). Described by judges as a 'cracking school' with an 'excellent vision of where it wants to go with technology', Homewood has raised standards through...
Louise Thomas (St Ethelbert's Ramsgate) suggested that we should have a number square that demonstrated decimal numbers. It also supports negative numbers. Features includes: Number range: -15 000 to 15 000 Negative numbers Decimal numbers Hide one...
View the following places in 360 degree interactive panoramas: The Roman Colosseum Italy The Great Wall. China Petra Jordan - the forgotten City Taj Mahal, India Machu Picchu, Peru Christ Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro Brazil Chichén Itzá, Mexico http://www...
This week we have decided to take a break from chosing just one website, to instead featuring a few classroom and teacher blogs popping up all over the web. Many schools are using blogs as an easy way to raise the profile of classroom learning and/or...
The Word Tree is one of my favourite Kent ICT games for FS/KS1 use on the IWB. We wanted to make a version more suitable for KS2. So there's a new game called Premiership Words . It allows to enter and store jazzy words for display on your IWB. The...
The schedule for Teachers TV this week is focussing on child safety and in particular there are two programmes on esafety. Both have been shown before and can be downloaded from the website. See http://www.teachers.tv/node/34948 Heidi
Teachers looking at persuasive writing within a Literacy lesson might want to use an advert from http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/series/advertisingvideos Some are unsuitable for classroom use so please do check them in advance. My personal favourite is...
Kent teacher Mark Warner's collaborative 'Ideas to Inspire' website continues to grow with the help of teachers all round the world. The latest collaborative collection is over 35 inspirational Youtube videos ideal for using with your class...
Welcome to the Web www.w2tw.co.uk " Welcome to the Web ", created by Kent teacher Mark Warner, is an highly praised interactive set of on-line resources which teach children (an adults) about different aspects of the Internet. The latest update...
Adding a webcam to a birdbox is becoming increasingly popular in schools. Last Sunday the Kestrel chicks hatch at Povey Farm. Now is a great time to watch them being fed and growing. http://www.lea.derbyshire.sch.uk/birdcam/kestrelcam/index.html Very...
Available on the Next Generation Learning website, these materials seek to engage parents in supporting their children at home http://www.nextgenerationlearning.org.uk/Online-resources-for-parents/
Tony Cassidy has created a fantastic powerpoint slide with multiple live streaming webcams. He has an example on his blog as well as instructions for making your own. Image your students faces when they walk into the classroom to see this on the interactive...
How good are you at parking a car? http://www.107.peugeot.co.uk/peugeot.swf Mandy:)
What are your top ICT tips? My favourite include: Using the F11 key when viewing webpage on the interactive whiteboard. It throws back all the navigation buttons and address bar so that you maximise the view of the webpage. Using the Print Screen key...
www.bekonscot.com/virtual_village/ is great fun, and a welcome alternative to MyWorld Make a Town. It fits into the Modelling (Year 1) and Simulation (Year 3) units, and possibly has some relevance in Geography! Click a building or feature, then click...
Learning with ICT in a typical UK primary school consists of an ICT suite with on average 15 PCs. Katy Potts (Primary Manager ICT, Cambridge Education) suggests schools need to make a leap of faith away from the traditional ICT suite. To read the full...
Sound effects www.soungle.com Soungle is a free site, developed by Southern Codes, for finding all kind of sound FX and musical instruments samples from their mega online library. As different from most of similar sites, Soungle is NOT a Web search engine...
The Kent Dig IT project is an exciting opportunity for Key Stage 2 pupils to investigate and write about the people and events associated with some of Kent's most famous historical sites. Schools on the project have chosen to take part in an activity...
Make IT Happy is the 3rd annual competition for 9-11 year olds that celebrates the technology talents of the UK's primary schools. 12 regional and national winners across the UK will each win £1,200 and the chance to compete for an additional £4,000...
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