Tag Archives: enhancing the curriculum
Shropshire ICT Student Conference
Today at the Prostar Stadium in Shrewsbury the Shropshire Student ICT Conference is starting to fill up. Students from all over the county are meeting today to share their experiences and learn new things about how they might use ICT … Continue reading
Posted in Enhancing the curriculum
Tagged Conference, enhancing the curriculum, Learning, Shropshire
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Animation10
Manchester University’s Animation10 project is open for submissions. Create a 1-minute animation using software from the list below and you stand a chance of being invited to the Animation Festival and prizegiving at The Lowry in Salford Quays, Manchester. Age … Continue reading
BBC Learning – Open Lab
The BBC has opened a site, BBC Learning Open Lab, for sharing and developing open source educational resources. From their site, this is: a new online community for teachers and developers, and anyone else who has an interest in producing … Continue reading
Physics and problem-solving
For those schools who want to use physics in action, Numpty Physics is a great physics sim that introduces principles with an element of fun. Most of all, it is intriguing and offers a number of different problems to solve. … Continue reading
Resource Activity Generator
It was nice to see John Davitt’s Resource Activity Generator at TeachMeet09. This is a random activity generator that gets a user to Do (random something) as (random learning activity). For instance, ‘Do the life cycle of a tadpole As … Continue reading
Headline History
The latest ictopus newsletter mentioned a website which enabled pupils to read newspaper style articles about the Tudoes, WWII, Victorians and Romans. So I headed to http://www.headlinehistory.co.uk/ to take a look. Its even better than that – pupils can read about … Continue reading
Posted in English, Enhancing the curriculum, History
Tagged creativity, English, enhancing the curriculum, Enhancing the curriculum, History
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Schools’ wikipedia selection
This selection from Wikipedia created by SOS Children claims to be tailored towards the UK National Curriculum. This 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much … Continue reading
High-tech cookie cutter
Food technologists sometimes find it difficult to get ICT in their curricula. Online recipes and analysys programs are great but it’s the Systems and Resistant Materials guys who get access to the impressive laser hardware. Well not any more. If … Continue reading