by Ian Addison | Aug 6, 2010 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
This is the first time that someone else has shared an idea via my blog and it is great to see someone else willing to share ideas. This message comes from Nick Phillips and he originaly sent it to the ICT Primary mailing list here in Hampshire, with his permission, I...
by Ian Addison | Jul 27, 2010 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
This was going to be the topic of a 5minute presentation at the Google Teacher Academy, but I wasn’t lucky enough to be selected. @ZoeRoss19 and @dajbelshaw suggested I blog about it instead. So here it is… One popular topic within KS1 looks at houses and...
by Ian Addison | Jul 9, 2010 | blogposts, General Thoughts, Useful Sites/Software
Do you send any surveys out to parents? children? governors? staff? How do you it? On paper or online? As part of our VLE training we show Google Forms. These are a fab way of asking questions and collating answers together, the best thing being that the data analysis...
by Ian Addison | Jun 19, 2010 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Have you ever used Voki? It’s a great website that allows you to create a talking character or avatar and then embed this onto your blog, website or VLE. We use Voki a lot here in Hampshire within our VLE. Often, especially with younger children, the internet...
by Ian Addison | Jun 19, 2010 | Blogging, blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
I have been talking to schools about blogging recently. We have a blog in our VLE and this is good, but this is all hidden away within the VLE. There are huge benefits to this, it is much more secure and safer, but writing for an audience demands an audience. Recently...
by Ian Addison | Jun 2, 2010 | blogposts, Useful Sites/Software
Have you ever heard of augmented reality?Wikipedia describes it here. My description would be that you can hold up a camera or phone, usually pointing it at a symbol and then you can see things on your screen. Once you print out the symbol, it looks like the webcam is...
