by Ian Addison | Mar 29, 2011 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Do you use Junior Librarian in your school? We have the .net version which gives a Silverlight environment where children can scan books in and out using a barcode reader. I know some schools have the thumbprint reader that does the same job. But does your library...
by Ian Addison | Feb 24, 2011 | blogposts, General Thoughts, Useful Sites/Software
It has been a busy half term so far, I’ve made 3 new websites. One is a blog for my local pyramid of schools (www.swanmorepyramid.co.uk) where we will be sharing ideas and tips across the schools. It will also be a way of getting the non-blogging schools to...
by Ian Addison | Dec 8, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts, Useful Sites/Software
Do you teach the children how to make a presentation in your school? I don’t mean ‘how to make a Powerpoint’, but actually how to present. I wanted the children to be able to present information to an audience and I write this a week before the final...
by Ian Addison | Nov 14, 2010 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Tomorrow I’m off to a school that has some DSis, Wiis and Ipod touches to do a bit of staff training. Now normally when I’m training people or presenting I am doing it because I know the subject matter inside out and I don’t need to prepare too much....
by Ian Addison | Oct 10, 2010 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Do you find that you love using video in your school but find it difficult to show it to others? We have that issue as Youtube is blocked and Vimeo recently joined it on the blocked list too. However I was messing about with plugins for our school website and found...
by Ian Addison | Oct 7, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts, Useful Sites/Software
A little while ago I wrote here and here about sharing websites with children at school. I asked what your homepage was and how could this be used to share the commonly used sites with staff and with children. Many ideas came and went. Speedtile was too limiting for...
