Category Archives: blogs

Windows Live Writer

On Friday I attended the Microsoft Free, Fun Friday event at their campus in Reading.  Throughout the day members of the education team demonstrated 29 free resources from Microsoft (http://yfrog.com/mr3lbj). Several of the resources were ones that I had heard … Continue reading

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Purple Mash Launch

2Simple have just launched their new creative online space, Purple Mash with a range of free exciting cross curricular resources to use. To celebrate the launch, during May and June only, they are also offering a free site licence for … Continue reading

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Ninja/Wizard Text

Would text like that above engage your students, you can type in up to 22 characters and either have a wizard or a ninja draw them.  The website generates html code that you could then drop in to a content … Continue reading

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Russell Prue, i-GotU and tagging

In his Shropshire ICT conference keynote speech Russell Prue mentioned the i-GotU GPS device for tagging photos using GPS.  After a colleague purchased one for under £20 from Maplin I thought that I should give it go.  So at Easter I set the … Continue reading

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Blog competition

Two Shropshire schools – St Mary’s Albrighton and Hope- have been nominated for Primary Bloggers’ blog of the year.  You can have a look at them by clicking on the links and then vote for your favourite by going to http://primaryblogger.co.uk/vote/. … Continue reading

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Blogging on the Gateway

Sharepoint allows schools to create and moderate their own blogs and it’s good to see some schools already doing so on the Shropshire Learning Gateway. To support teachers in setting up blogs in Sharepoint I have written a brief guide. … Continue reading

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Confused about copyright?

Finding images got so much easier when digital images were put onto the Internet.  Photographers could share their pictures and sell them online, families could share their photos easily and quickly freely.  But using copyrighted images in public work is … Continue reading

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Britannica Encyclopedia for free

Another freebie, this time for bloggers or website developers. Encyclopaedia Britannica Webshare is a special program for web publishers, including bloggers, webmasters, and anyone who writes for the Internet. You get complimentary access to the Encyclopaedia Britannica online and, if … Continue reading

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Shropshire blogs feed

You may have noticed that we have a feed from Shropshire education blogs within the sidebar.  The blogs included are the ones that we know about, if you don’t see your posts appearing let me know and I will include … Continue reading

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Conference 07 – Reasons for blogging by students from Hope Primary School

Letting parents stay up to date with current work and events The blog is important to me. It is important because my mum has a job and she can’t just drive up to school and have a look at it … Continue reading

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