http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress Digital Technologies for Learning Tue, 15 Jul 2008 08:23:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As many of you will know, over the past few months Dr Tanya Byron has been conducting a review of children's use of technologies (focussing on use of the Internet and gaming) and the implications for their safety and well-being. The report is now out - 'Safer Children in a ... http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/07/15/the-byron-review/ Microsoft have a set of Office 2007 posters available for free for schools. Details can be found on the Microsoft Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/ukschools/archive/2008/06/17/free-office-2007-classroom-posters.aspx If you’d like me to send you a set, just email with your name, school name and address. Let them know if you’re already using Office 2007 in the classroom, ... http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/07/07/office-2007-posters-free/ From the Kent education blog, I found out about these Flash- based engaging maths ITPs, developed by Coventry LA. They include activities in money, bingo, shape and space and many more. I found that they work best when saved to your pc, then opened. http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/07/04/interactive-maths-activities/ There is still time to book onto the free (to Shropshire schools) e-safety conference, next Tuesday, 8th July at Albrighton Hall, nr Shrewsbury. The keynote speaker will be Karl Hopwood, whose bio reads 'He has been involved with internet safety projects with Becta for a number of years now and worked ... http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/07/03/e-safety-conference/ As part of a course I was running last night, I had cause to revisit Picasa, Google's free image manipulation software, and I must say that it was well worth revisiting. I had forgotten how powerful it is. A particular favourite is the 'collage' facility, which enable you to take ... http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/07/03/picasa/ NumberGym provides a set of extremely useful maths tools and activities for primary maths, especially good for use with an interactive board. Shropshire schools can download an example of their 'Digit Counters' file - SMART users from here, Activ users from here. Well worth a look. http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/07/02/numbergym/ I was recently asked where to get film clips/trailers from the net. Came up with the following: http://creative.bfi.org.uk/titles/ - British film institute http://www.imdb.com/ - scroll down to the bottom of the page and there's a link for 'trailers', which can be accessed via an index Obviously, http://www.youtube.com (using our friend www.zamzar.com to get ... http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/07/01/film-clips-and-trailers/ Through the  'Cool Cat Teacher' blog, I found out about this very accessible (and cool!) wiki at http://k12learning20.wikispaces.com which is designed to deliver a course on Web 2.0 technologies. Anyone can browse and its really worth a look for anyone who wants to find out more about the basics of ... http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/06/25/want-to-know-more-about-web-20/ Billy from Thomas Adams has uploaded all his x-games resources to the KS4 documents section within the ICT area of the new Shropshire Learning Gateway.  These resources are only available to Shropshire schools: https://www.shropshirelg.net/curriculum/foundsubjects/ict/secondary/Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx?RootFolder=%2fcurriculum%2ffoundsubjects%2fict%2fsecondary%2fDocuments%2fKS4%2fX%20Games&FolderCTID=&View=%7b00AB74E3%2d6FA2%2d4181%2dB4B3%2dEFCD662FBD24%7d These resources support the use of an xbox to provide evidence towards the ASDAN qualification at KS4. http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/06/18/x-games/ Please click the following link to view the Diploma in IT newsletter for June 2008. http://www.e-skills.com/diplomanewsjune08 http://www.educationblog.org.uk/wordpress/2008/06/17/new-it-diploma-newsletter/