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Google Teacher Academy

Posted on June 14, 2010 by Steve Beard

The Google Teacher Academy is a FREE professional development experience designed to help primary and secondary educators from around the globe get the most from innovative technologies. Each Academy is an intensive, one-day event where participants get hands-on experience with … Continue reading →

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Augmented Reality

Posted on August 31, 2009 by Dale

Augmented Reality technology has been just over the horizon for a while. It was even shown on the Gadget Show a while back so it must now be creeping into mainstream.  It’s been interesting to watch it develop and it … Continue reading →

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A long time ago and far far away

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Dale

How many people can remember what they were doing the week before their sixth birthday?  For me, it’s easy to remember – like the rest of the world I was wildly excited about the Apollo 11 moon landing.  I think … Continue reading →

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Shropshire school locations

Posted on May 18, 2009 by Steve Beard

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 →

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Using Google Sketchup – from Lifehacker

Posted on May 17, 2009 by Steve Beard

Lifehacker blog have just posted an article about using Google Sketchup, we have promoted the use of sketchup in DT lessons for a few years now.  Have a read of the article if you would like to see a practical … Continue reading →

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Flight Simulator in Google Earth 4.2

Posted on September 4, 2007 by Steve Beard

Both Lifehacker and Teaching Mr Belshaw give details of the flight simulator that you can find in the latest version of Google Earth (4.2).  The flight simulator controls can be found here. Tweet This Post

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What time is it? – Ask Google

Posted on September 11, 2006 by Steve Beard

The latest search term I have found for Google is ‘time’, this allows you to find the time in ‘major‘ cities and towns. Tweet This Post

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Google Earth Tour

Posted on September 4, 2006 by Steve Beard

After reading Wesley Fryer’s post on ‘Classroom Blog World Tour‘ and reading through the Google Earth Tutorial, I decided to have a go.  You can download my ‘Shropshire Secondary Schools‘ file and let me know what you think. What tours … Continue reading →

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Google Spreadsheets

Posted on July 20, 2006 by admin

We’ve already pointed to a number of Google developments and acquisitions including the recent assimilation of Writely which has great potential in any collaborative writing. Well here’s the perfect complement in terms of collaborative spreadsheet work. I know some of … Continue reading →

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Google notebook

Posted on July 6, 2006 by Steve Beard

Google notebook is an extension for IE or Firefox web browsers. Clip and collect information as you browse the web. Clip useful information. You can add clippings of text, images and links from web pages to your Google Notebook without … Continue reading →

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