Ideas to Inspire

Today I came across this superb site relevant to most curriculum areas and it certainly does what it says on the tin – it has many  “Ideas to Inspire“! The site has been put together by Mark Warner and is a collaborative project including a series of presentations giving short overviews of creative ideas for [...]

Using Audio-visual resources in classroom (1) – Creating resources using Moviemaker

Last weeks Teaching and Learning group meeting was focused on looking at the use of audio-visual resources in the classroom.
Audio-visual resources can greatly enrich the everyday classroom bringing to life teaching and learning opportunities and giving the potential to bring the outside world into the classroom broadening and enhancing our students experience. There are many [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]