Sir Jim’s Leeks

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 [...]

“satisfactory” = “unsatisfactory”

Well put article in the Guardian this morning explains ‘Ofsted Newspeak’
Just trying to keep the inspectors satisfied
It’s now a mark of dishonour to be labelled a ’satisfactory’ teacher, says Phil Beadle
Guardian 24/03/2009
“No more. What should we read into the change to the bald four grades currently in use, where lessons are either “outstanding”, “good”, “satisfactory” [...]

Animation for all

An online timeline animation program.
Ajax Animator.

Interesting posssiblities for e-learning materials

And an introduction to film making.

Scratch Resources

This came up in Simon Mill’s (ICT Inspirations Blog) del.icio.us.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
We have one or two pages here that explain Scratch.

Clay Animation Anyone?

A free program for stop motion animation and a whole site full of help.

Stop Motion Animator

Clay Animator Website

Create your own start page.

There are a number of companies offering services to create your own start page. Simply put, rather than having one home page, you can have many pages feeding to one or more aggregated pages.
On your home page you can choose to have a mixture of LINKS, RSS FEEDS, FLICKR PHOTOS, WEATHER MAPS, CLOCKS etc. In [...]

PhotoFiltre

A free graphics program to experiment with filters.
 
 PhotoFiltre

MWSnap

A Free downloadable screen capture utility.
Great as a companion to PAINT.net for creating Blog size graphics.

Mirek’s Free Windows Software via kwout
 

Scattr

A Flash program that can scatter Flickr photographs onto an enabled page. A small fee is required to purchase this.

brendandawes.com » Scattr via kwout
  
Must get the photos onto flicker.