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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Conference follow up – Courses
During the conference many delegates attended short taster sessions demonstrating a range of collaborative technologies. To follow these sessions we are putting on the following courses: May 4th (am) – Introduction to blogging May 25th (am) – Introduction to Flickr … Continue reading
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Conference – initial reactions (Keynote)
It is now the day after the conference and I have some time to sit down and reflect on yesterdays conference. For those of you who were unable to make it to Shrewsbury for the day I feel you missed … Continue reading
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Freshy Banner
I have noticed lots of Shropshire blogs now are using the Freshy theme, the theme can be customised quite a lot and has a fresh clean look and feel. One of the advanced options allows you to select from a … Continue reading