Tag Archives: Shropshire Learning Gateway
Make the best use of your learning platform
The learning platform adoption model has been published by Becta. You can read more about it on their website or download the pdf version for offline viewing. Tweet This Post
Brain Pop UK (@BrainPOP_UK)
I have been a fan of Brain Pop since I first saw them at BETT 2009, this year we were fortunate enough to have Eylan (@eylanezekiel) with us. BrainPop provided a free subscription as a prize on the day, this … Continue reading
December Picture Project
During December we are inviting primary and secondary pupils to create a digital image (paint or photograph) that we could use in the learning gateway. The theme for secondary pupils is ’21st Century learning’ and the theme for primary pupils … Continue reading
Out of my window…
Do you want to get your children using the Shropshire Learning Gateway email, but don’t know where to start? In November 2009, we are running a project across Shropshire to get children to use their email. We will send your … 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
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
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SLG trainings
A number of schools have made a good start using the Shropshire Learning Gateway, and we feel that this may be an opportune time to remind you of the courses that are available, at no charge, for the rest of … Continue reading
Create It Awards 09
The winning entries for the Create It! Awards 2009 are now available to view within the ICT section of the Shropshire Learning Gateway – click here for a direct link. You need to log onto the SLG in order to … Continue reading
Primary SLG – email
A number of schools have come across some limitations in the email facility of the SLG, when using it with older pupils. Schools such as St Mary’s Albrighton are overcoming this hurdle by using the primary product with their pupils … Continue reading
Free image resizing
One of the main problems people find when uploading images into the Gateway (or indeed any website/blog etc) is the huge size of the images. We have been using Paint.net to resize single images, but for bulk resizing of images, … Continue reading