Training Session: Effective use of IWB (SMARTBoard)

A new term and straight back into a training session. Wednesday morning’s training session for staff from Hartford Student Support Centre is on “Making effective use of the Interactive Whiteboard” – the rationale behind the session is to introduce what Interactive Whiteboards actually are, the basics of how they work and a presentation of SMART [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]