Robin Hood Associates

Literacy with ICT

mr broadfield — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:53:32 +0000

Manitoba Education Department have just published a handbook for parents (but equally good for teachers) on literacy with ICT. The booklet covers critical and creative thinking, ethics and responsibility and literacy and ICT. An easy read that is worth sharing with your parents.

2010 Horizon Report

mr broadfield — Fri, 28 May 2010 20:37:20 +0000

The Horizon 2010 report is available for download from here. The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education.

ZOOBURST Augmented Reality Books

mr broadfield — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:24:14 +0000

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that is designed to let anyone easily create their own customized 3D pop-up books. Very easy to create a pop-up book from scratch.

Plenty of example books to get you going.

EtherPad

mr broadfield — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:46:14 +0000

Etherpad is a real time collaborative online word processor ideal for the primary classroom. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone’s screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team programming, and more.

Get it here

Website Creation with Weebly

mr broadfield — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 19:32:08 +0000

Powerful, Drag & Drop Website Editor

Add pictures, videos, music and audio, maps, and photo galleries. Sell products, accept online bookings, create a contact form, or arrange your pages in multiple columns. Drag on slideshows, files, forums, games, RSS feeds, or any other HTML embed code — all by simply dragging and dropping.

This is a really easy to use website – safe for pupils to use, enabling them to make professional looking websites in minutes

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

mr broadfield — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:29:58 +0000

This was originally posted by a variety of people in Twitter – it comprises of many photographs categorised by people, decade, places, events and culture – it has its own search facility making it very easy to track down images to support any project you are running in the classroom – as a teacher i would find this a really useful resource to support any work i was doing in the area of visual literacy -

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

Stixy

mr broadfield — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:41:23 +0000

Came across this useful looking site called STIXY - this is in effect a blank bulletin board – you can add images, to do lists, documents and notes -

Stixies can be shared with invited guests (by email) thus making them a collaborative tool – This could have a variety of classroom applications ranging from collaborative research to records of achievement -

Pupil Voice

mr broadfield — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 11:53:48 +0000

You might be interested to know that last year the National College for School Leadership and the National Education Trust hosted a day for 100+ primary pupils to work on a pupil learners charter. The day proved to be excellent and the charter can be found by following the link below – take a look – why not think about developing a learners charter at your own school – i would be very interested to hear from anyone who wants to do this.

pupil charter

Heritage Explorer

mr broadfield — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 09:00:39 +0000

This is a wonderful website that has loads of “heritage” pictures and associated activities. Their strapline states,

“Explore our inspirational images and information to discover more about England’s heritage.
Teachers and pupils can pick and mix from our images and resources to create their own learning experience.”

The site has the following categories;

http://www.heritageexplorer.org.uk/nmrlearningzone/default.aspx

Edmodo

mr broadfield — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 08:46:30 +0000

If you are interested in setting up a Web 2.0 environment for your class, but are worried about online security and safety, it might be worth exploring Edmodo. Their website says,

“Edmodo is a private micro-blogging platform built for use by teachers and students for use in the classroom. The problem with traditional web 2.0 tools in a k-12 classroom environment is concerns over privacy of the students. Edmodo has been built with the privacy of students in mind. Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers also have the ability to send, alerts, events, and assignments to students.”

see Edmodo here – http://www.edmodo.com/blog/about/