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FlipQuiz – fun in the classroom
Revise work, check understanding or ‘assess FOR learning’… this quiz software is easy to use, lots of fun and free. “FlipQuiz™ was created to provide educators with a quick way to create...
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Think before you post
Students need to learn basic netiquette rules before entering their ideas or opinions online. The following links provide summaries and infographics to teach about ‘netiquette’. A visual, created by...
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Tagxedo – Word Cloud Fun
This site suggests many ways of using Tagxedo. Applying this in the classroom would be fun.
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Resources for teaching Digital Citizenship
Find resources for teaching Digital Citizenship in this EdTechReview post This infographic certainly ‘connects’ with students…
View ArticleMaker Spaces in Schools Explained
“How the Maker Movement Connects Students to Engineering and Technology” shows how students can learn at a very creative, personal level. This could be applied across many areas of student interest and...
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Little free libraries
“Little Free Libraries — hand-built boxes where neighbors can trade novels, memoirs, comics, and cookbooks, and connect with each other in the process.” What a great idea! There are many versions of...
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Learning technology skills
21 Things 4 Students “was created as an educational and online resource to help students improve their technology proficiency as they prepare for success in the 21st century. This project was...
View ArticleAnti-Bullying video
“Filmmaker Duncan Toombs, of West Gosford-based production company The Filmery, was asked to make a music video for Australian country music duo McAlister Kemp’s new single Fight Me. And now the...
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Finding public domain images
Finding suitable images to use in assignments or presentations that are not bound by copyright can be difficult. Learning how to access these specific images in Google Images is an important procedure...
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More Public Domain Images Sites
Twelve other places to investigate for Public Domain Images from Med Kharbach of Educational Technology and Mobile Learning Flickr, Public Domain Photos, National Gallery of Art, British Library,...
View ArticleChanging role of school libraries
This clip by Dominique Sullivan and Jennifer Lunny illustrates that the roles of school libraries and Teacher Librarians are changing. This has been happening for some time and the possibilities make...
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History of the Internet in maps
Timothy B. Lee uses an amazing series of maps to explain how the Internet was first set up, how it expanded and also the development of access and even threats during this time. The latest trends of...
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Animalia Puzzle a great hit
As a Book Week “Connect to Reading” activity for the High School we set up a puzzle board for a jigsaw puzzle based on the ‘L’ page of the Graeme Base book Animalia. This was a great hit and in less...
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Evaluating the quality of online information
In her post on the Edutopia Blog, Julie Coiro, Associate Professor of Education at the University of Rhode Island, suggests ways to develop skills in adolescents dealing with online information. “An...
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Kindergarten’s ‘Farm Day’
After a day filled with exhausting ‘farm’ activities all three classes headed to the IRC for some ‘Farm’ stories. First we read two stories illustrated on the Interactive Board attached to a projection...
View ArticleThe more you use your brain the more it grows
The Learning Myth: Why I’ll Never Tell My Son He’s Smart by Salman Kahn from the Kahn Academy looks at ways to ‘grow our intelligence’. With such easy access to resources and activities the potential...
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Teach for the whole brain
Half-Brain Teaching Isn’t Enough Infographic “In today’s societies there is a lot of focus on the logical and analytical brain functions. Many schools are cutting the ‘extras’ like art and music....
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Learning frameworks and Guided Inquiry
Champlain Valley Union High School have sent this infographic via their Twitter feed. It visually illustrates the important role of Critical Thinking in learning. So many different learning frameworks...
View ArticleLaunch of Mrs T’s Kooky Pants
One of our Primary teachers, Jennifer Reid, recently had her first children’s book published. A number of teachers from Broughton and some of her students attended the launch at The Children’s Bookshop...
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