Monthly Archives: December 2008
Snowball Fight
No snow, fear not thanks to Mark Pickering from Belvidere School in Shrewsbury you can still have a snowball fight Have a great Christmas and all the best for 2009. Tweet This Post
CEOP on YouTube
CEOP has their own channel on YouTube: uk.youtube.com/ceop Here is just one of a selection of videos you can view: Tweet This Post
Data Protection Competition: make a video and win a trip to Brussels, plus X-boxes!
European Schoolnet has launched a video competition, targeting young people from 15 to 19 years old, to encourage reflection on privacy and data protection. Participants are invited to express their thoughts and concerns about the use of their personal information … Continue reading
Seadragon on the iPhone
Microsoft have released their first iPhone/iPod touch application – Seadragon (livelabs.com/seadragon/). The application is free and appears to use their Deep Zoom technology. The screen shots demonstrates the app in operation. The left most image is the whole picture then … Continue reading
Teachmeet Bett ’09
Teachmeet at BETT seems to have gathered some momentum and organisation this week. Teachmeet will be at Olympia on the Friday of BETT starting at 6pm and running until about 9pm. At present the following people have agreed to talk: … Continue reading
Posted in CPD, Enhancing the curriculum, Learning
Tagged BETT09, CPD, creativity, Enhancing the curriculum, hints and tips, ICT, innovation, Learning, teachmeet
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Shropshire Create IT! 09
This competition is only open to Shropshire maintained schools. Tweet This Post
Posted in Shropshire, animation, podcast, video
Tagged animation, competition, computer game, creativity, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Learning, podcast, Shropshire, video
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Educationblog on your iphone
While trying to re-install the old plugins on the blog I came across the ‘WPtouch iPhone theme’ plugin, www.bravenewcode.com/wptouch As you can see from the image the plugin automatically formats the blogs appearance when viewed on an iPhone or iPod … Continue reading
Public Domain Clipart
Teachers and pupils continually have a need for ‘free’ clipart and images, I recently found this site www.wpclipart.com/ that offers public domain clipart. This is a clean and safe site for children and others to find good-quality, printable images that … Continue reading
Internet Explorer security flaw
Another security flaw has been found in Microsoft Internet Explorer. reports have abounded all over the Internet; here’s an extract from Richard Wray’s article in the Guardian (full text here): Users of Microsoft’s Internet Explorer have been warned of a … Continue reading
A Lazarus moment
After a brief time offline due to an upgrade error the Education Blog has been given a prod by the resident edugeek and, as you can see, is now fully functional and all systems are just tickety-boo once again. We … Continue reading