Author Archives: Steve Beard
Do you have a good idea for bringing science alive in schools, but need some funding to make it happen?
Taken from The Royal Society website (royalsociety.org/Partnership/): The latest round of the Partnership Grants scheme is now closed. The next round will open on 6 September 2010 and close on 5 November 2010. Maybe you’re a teacher with a great idea for a … Continue reading
Cleaner YouTube
Safari, the Apple browser (that works on both pc and mac) updated to version 5.1 this week. This update included the ability to add extensions, similar to what you have been able to do with Firefox for several years. For … Continue reading
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Every young person on Facebook needs the ClickCEOP app – this is why
If you work with teenagers, then you’ll know most of them will be using Facebook. You might even be using it yourself… if so, you will want to know about a new, free application in Facebook that is designed to … Continue reading
Software4Students
At the secondary ICT subject leader network meeting this morning we were discussing software licenses for students. I alerted the teachers to the Software4Students website where students/parents can purchase a range of applications that they are using in school for … Continue reading
Computers for Africa
Taken from the NAACE newsletter: Is it time for a school or department refresh? Not sure what to do with all your out-of-date kit? We may have the solution for you. We have been approached by a charity in Leicestershire … Continue reading
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Video Conferencing with the Imperial War Museum
Yesterday I was at The Marches School in Oswestry. A group of year 9 students were participating in a highly interactive video conference with the Imperial War Museum. The students were split into 4 groups, media, spies, weapons and deployment. … Continue reading
Planning
At the students ICT Conference on Monday, Russell Prue led three workshops (Live School Radio; Promote student voice, enhance your speaking & listening, create and broadcasting a live radio show). It was great to see students from a variety of … Continue reading
Students & phones
At the start of the Students ICT Conference on Monday, Russell Prue (http://www.andertontiger.com/russell/default.htm) asked the students to solve this problem:
Office 2010 Posters
Are you rolling out Office 2010 over the Summer break, fancy some nice new posters to decorate your classroom walls? If your answer is ‘yes’ then check out the Microsoft UK Schools Blog to get details on getting your hands … Continue reading
Free, Fun Friday
As I mentioned in my earlier post, I attended Free, Fun Friday at the Microsoft Campus last week (blogs.msdn.com/b/ukschools/archive/2010/06/11/free-microsoft-software-for-schools-from-the-fun-and-free-friday-event.aspx). The following presentation gives a quick overview of the applications demonstrated: Free Microsoft Apps View more presentations from tarannau20.