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Website of the Week - Visual Geography

“ Visualgeography.com lets you explore the world through images, flags, money, language, maps and other information.” View photos of a country, listen to the native language of that area, learn more about transportation, education, religion, people, etc Ideal for use on the interactive whiteboard for...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 06-29-2008
Free Ict cross-curricular lessons plans from Ictopus

In an English activity this week 5-6 year old children use their developing understanding of context and grammatical cues to help them predict hidden words in a text. Simple turtle graphics using a freely available online application provides a mathematical challenge for children aged 6-7. In science...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 05-01-2008
Weather around the World Day

As you may know, Kent is running a Weather Watch project this year. http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/weatherwatch/ We are now looking forward to our first ever Weather around the World Day on Wednesday 21st May 2008 Colette Cotton (Leading ICT Teacher – Shepway 1) last term invited the overseas schools...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-27-2008
Weather Watch Music and ICT Day

A workshop with contributions from Helen MacGregor ASK Music Advisor, Michele Gregson ASK Art Advisory Teacher and Kent Leading ICT Teachers Schools taking part in Weather Watch 2008 are invited to attend a Music and ICT workshop at Oaktree Primary School, Ashford on Friday 9th May 2008. During the session...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-02-2008
Little Bear & Sophie Bear's Website

Little Bear & Sophie Bear are travelling teddies who live with Mrs Keen, an Essex based Early Years teacher. Children can read a diary of the bears exciting adventures. Adults will find teaching resources, recommended books for early years children and days out for early years ideas. http://www.sophiebear...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 07-02-2007
Panorama Photo Resources

Panprama photos are great to show on the interactive whiteboards. ( Quicktime needs to be installed) Click and drag from side to side as well as up and down. Seaside Cornawall http://www.panoramas.dk/fullscreen6/f38-cadgwith-cornwall.html Blackpool http://www.vrblackpool.co.uk/blackpool-tour-2006/index...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 06-17-2007
How big is YOUR footprint?

We’re hearing a lot of talk about our eco-footprint these days but how do we know how big ours is? zerofootprints.com enables children to calculate their carbon footprint. By simply answering 25 fun interactive questions, pupils will easily discover how much water, carbon, land and trees they use in...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 05-29-2007
Interacting with Google Earth with Atlas gloves

Seeing is believing! What will they think of next? Technology is moving a a rapid pace. I thought Google Earth by itself was a fantastic tool but now someone has come up with away of interacting with the application whilst standing at the back of the class. Its time to put on your gloves and 'swim' with...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-30-2007
Webcam Wall

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 whiteboard! Each picture is live. You can actually...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-03-2007
Geography UK Photographs

We have highlighted www.geograph.org.uk before but it is worth mentioning again. It has grown into a huge resource of pictures freely available under the Creative Commons Licence . (Many Flickr users have also chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license, and you can browse or search through...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 02-09-2007

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