Tag Archives: Geography
Another Gem from Ollie
I have just shown this website to several of my colleagues and they all agreed I should post it up here. Thanks again to Ollie Bray for sharing this with the audience at Handheld Learning earlier this week. Ollie suggested … Continue reading
Nice Starter Activity for Geography/History lessons
At the Handheld Learning Festival I attended a session by Ollie Bray from Learning and Teaching Scotland, he went through a variety of websites that could be used to support teaching and learning. One of his suggestions was Bing, Microsofts new … Continue reading
Shropshire school locations
A few weeks ago Steljes asked for the locations of all our schools so that they can plan the roll out of SMART Notebook 10 training (see details in post coming soon). Rather than just giving them the post codes … Continue reading
Posted in Shropshire
Tagged Geography, google, Shropshire, Shropshire Learning Gateway
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Video on the cheap
Despite the obvious learning opportunities it offers, sometimes it’s difficult to justify buying a digital video camera for everybody. There are limitations to using a DV camera; usually you need to connect the camera to the computer to get the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, English, Enhancing the curriculum, History, Music
Tagged Art, busbi, Design and Technology, elearning, English, Enhancing the curriculum, flipcam, Geography, Hardware, History, Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4, Maths/Numeracy, MFL, Music, PSHE & Citizenship, RE, video
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Present your own weather forecasts
At the digital video course the other day, one of the participants was telling us how she had used digital blue cameras to record her children presenting their own weather forecasts, which they had researched and created. All agreed that this was … Continue reading
World Environment Day
Colleagues You may be interested in bringing this site to your colleagues and schools attention. It is about World Environment Day, which this year is taking the theme of climate change. World Environment Day is promoted in the UK by … Continue reading
Tagged Geography, PSHE & Citizenship, WMnet
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Climate Change resource pack
Dear all, As you maybe aware today Defra and the Department for Educations and Skills have sent out to all secondary schools in England a resource pack to help teachers and pupils explore and understand the issues surrounding climate change. … Continue reading
Tagged Geography, WMnet
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Climate Change
Young People’s Climate Change Messages project – new video trailer available. The events at Millennium point (Jan 18th) and Bishops Wood (23rd) are now full but there are plenty of spaces at the Telford, Stafford and Coventry venues. Tweet This … Continue reading
Posted in CPD, Enhancing the curriculum, Learning
Tagged CPD, Enhancing the curriculum, Geography, Key Stage 3, Learning, WMnet
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Google Earth historical maps
If you have the latest version of Google Earth installed, you can now access a collection of historical map overlays, such as a 1790 world globe. In the layers section, select All Layers, then look for Featured Content > Rumsey … Continue reading
Posted in Enhancing the curriculum, History
Tagged elearning, Enhancing the curriculum, Geography, History
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Live weather data
Lickhill Lodge First School on the northern edge of Stourport has just publised its weather station data online – it updates every ten minutes. More weather stations in London can be viewed here. Tweet This Post
Posted in Enhancing the curriculum
Tagged Enhancing the curriculum, Geography, Key Stage 3
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