Monthly Archives: December 2005
German & Football
I came across this website and thought what a great way to engage some of our students with learning German. It would have been nice if they also had the audio for the German so you could also hear what … Continue reading
Tagged MFL
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Christmas animation project winner!
Class 2 of Hope CE Primary School are the winners of our digitalbrain Christmas animation project, with their fantastic angel animations, created in Macromedia Flash. You can view the animations by visting http://hope.shropshire.digitalbrain.com and following the links from the front … Continue reading
Free D&T software for primaries
Wild things This is a free CAD program from Wild Ginger, which provides configurable and printable patterns and sewing instructions for a wide range of textile products, such as waist wallets, slippers, sun hats, aprons and shawls, as well as … Continue reading
New NESTA Futurelab Research Publication
The logic of education systems should be reversed so that the system conforms to the learner, rather than the learner to the system. This is the essence of personalisation. It demands a system capable of offering bespoke support for each … Continue reading
Tagged elearning
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Gandalf Spells Super Broad Broadband
Sometime ago I came across references to developments in wired and wireless broadband in the Giga bits per second range. Apart from being of interest to some colleagues, it occurred to me that it was a useful leading edge development … Continue reading
Tagged Techie Stuff
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Free software for Shropshire schools
All Shropshire schools will be receiving a free licence for Kar2ouche Composer, primary schools will each get a 15 user licence and secondary schools will receive a site licence. All Shropshire primary schools will receive site licences for the following … Continue reading
Tagged Payware
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A lovely website for early years: Poissonrouge
The website www.poissonrouge.com/ is a delightful website focusing on letters, numbers and mouse control in French and English. Explore and smile, giggle or laugh. Originally posted by Steph Woods
Tagged Foundation Stage
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Firefox 1.5
The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Firefox 1.5 has an intuitive interface and blocks viruses, spyware, and popup ads. It delivers Web pages faster than ever. And itÂ’s easy to install and import your favorites. Packed with useful … Continue reading
Tagged Freeware
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Mark Prensky keynote speech
I saw Mark speak in Bristol about 2 years ago and I found him inspirational. Here you can watch his keynote speech from this years, 2005, SETT festival. Mark has written many articles, many of which can be found here. … Continue reading
Ze Frank
From Spiritual Weightlifting I found out about Ze Frank. The guy’s uses of ICT are so refreshingly playful and challenging to the normal things out there…well, you just have to take a look. I’m not sure which is my favourite … Continue reading
Tagged General
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