Classpress.net – Daily news feeds for Curriculum Subjects

A great new free tool called classpress.net has been launched courtesy of Russel Tarr of Class Tools.net and ActiveHistory. It involves a generator which does an hourly run through web services looking for topic keywords associated with different subject areas. This creates an uptodate summary of key news articles for different subject areas and is [...]

Enhancing teaching and learning with ICT

This morning I was at Homerton in Cambridge working with the Faculty of Education PGCE Geography students, looking at the way ICT can be used to enhance the teaching and learning of geography. We talked about department websites, VLEs, blogs, wikis, podcasts and the Interactive Whiteboard. Obviously many ideas are generic and can easily be [...]

Professional Development Archive (Using Delicious)

One of the things I will be introducing in this evening’s meeting is the new Professional Development Links archive which I have set up to hopefully benefit all staff using the Delicious online bookmarking tool.
Delicious is simply a social book marking system which stores bookmarks online, allowing users to create an online list of sites [...]

Using Games in the Classroom

The primary aim of Tuesday’s teaching and learning meeting is to explore how new technologies can be used to facilitate the use of games in the classroom and to provide some training in how to create simple yet effective games and quizzes that can be used both in the classroom on the IWB and published [...]

Online Revision – Mind mapping tools – Mindomo

I am starting to look at how new technologies can be used to support revision and I am hoping to run an extra session on my findings in April for those who are interested. As I research I am going to try and blog about as many potential tools as possible to. Mind mapping can [...]