by Ian Addison | Oct 20, 2013 | blogposts, Curriculum, Useful Sites/Software
I am writing this post because I have been asked by a few people how I actually use the 100 Word Challenge within school. So I though I would share a few ideas to get you started. This week, over 1000 children have contributed to the weekly prompt for the first time....
by Ian Addison | May 18, 2013 | blogposts, Curriculum, Useful Sites/Software
There are many tools that people get shown either via Twitter or at a Teachmeet and then they sit on the “to-do” list for ages. I know loads of people who haven’t got around to trying differentt ools for one reason or another. Voicethread is on my...
by Ian Addison | Mar 26, 2013 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
I don’t know why it came to me so late, but this morning I had an idea. Why not stream our concert live to the world? Today was our Listen to Me concert which is the culmination of a term’s music tuition from Hampshire Music Service. They give us weekly...
by Ian Addison | Feb 11, 2013 | blogposts, Curriculum, Useful Sites/Software
After our success last week with videos for news reports, we have looked to other ways of editing and playing with video online. Offline we were fairly limited to an old version of Windows Movie Maker, but on the web, we suddenly have loads of (free!!) tools to pick...
by Ian Addison | Feb 6, 2013 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Just a quick post but I found this tool (via the ICT Magic Wiki) that I had to share. The tool is WeVideo (www.wevideo.com) and it is an online video editing program. The first reason for loving it is that it uses Google Apps logins to sign in. This means that the...
by Ian Addison | Nov 4, 2012 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Today I went on my first geocaching experience. For those that don’t know, a geocache is a container that is hidden somewhere in the world. It has coordinates assigned to it and then using these coordinates (or an app) people go and look for the boxes. Inside...