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Sir Jim’s Leeks

Mr Ball — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:06:36 +0000

Pupils to study Twitter and blogs in primary schools shake-up
• New curriculum will give teachers more freedom
• Second world war and Victoria not compulsory

Polly Curtis – Guardian 25/03/09

Study Twitter? Study Blogs? They are just tools to engage and stimulate. For many they are already, just an every day, common place thing.
I wonder sometimes if the people writing the headlines have any idea?

“The proposed curriculum, which would mark the biggest change to primary schooling in a decade, strips away hundreds of specifications about the scientific, geographical and historical knowledge pupils must accumulate before they are 11 to allow schools greater flexibility in what they teach.”

You can just hear the scrape of old soapboxes as they are pulled out of cupboards in response to this idea.

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Creative Commons Images and Sounds

Mr Ball — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 18:38:05 +0000

A scribd ipaper document from ‘The Whiteboard Blog‘ on the subject of creative commons and sounds.

Creative Commons Images and Sounds

Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Education Course Material blogs creative

We have a search page on our website that brings together various search engines, including the flickr suggestions on the ipaper document that may be useful.

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Becta show benefits of Web2.0 in the classroom

Mr Ball — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 10:44:28 +0000

A summary of the report here

Key elements so far are
- encourage student engagement
- encourage online discussion
- extend their learning
- sense of ownership

The report into the use of Web2.0 technologies at KS3 and KS4 to be found here.

This report is for KS3 and KS4 but looking at the work at Sandaig and Tom Barret’s Blog then use of these tools in Primary Schools should be high on agendas perhaps.

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Comics anyone?

Mr Ball — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 08:35:41 +0000

I’d always liked the idea of creating comics with children. There’s a great piece of software (Comic Life) that John Johnston at Sandaig has used but it’s Mac only.
Look at their latest Sports Day Comics here.

I saw this piece yesterday from Mr Kp and now there’s a web2.0 site called Comiqs that does the same thing.

blogpost from mrkp on Comiqs

Time to have a go.

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Create photo albums.

Mr Ball — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:55:55 +0000

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Dipity

Mr Ball — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 06:37:34 +0000

Dipity – A rather neat Web2.0 program that allows one or groups of children to create a timeline. You can set a class password or invite collaboration via e-mail. Contribution is by invitation only, although all can view.
Here’s on that was begun earlier. (Click – Show all, if nothing visible.)

Here it is linked in to our Tudor Pages – ‘Who were the Tudors?’

There’s a post here from ‘Teaching with Technology’ which highlights its use, plus another example by Aami.

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teachinglinks.co.uk

Mr Ball — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 08:46:29 +0000

A huge collection of Primary Teaching Links

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Any one for Large Posters?

Mr Ball — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:38:31 +0000

Classroom posters on a large scale.

Block Posters

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Flickr Storm

Mr Ball — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:33:09 +0000

A great way to turn up odd photos in flickr.

FlickrStorm

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OnLine Document Viewer

Mr Ball — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:37:29 +0000

ipaper

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