Jigsaw planet

It is the last day of the school holidays for me. I have been looking after my niece and nephews (7 yrs and younger). We have been lucky and have enjoyed great weather these holidays but I tried to make sure I had some other ideas if the weather turned and outside activities needed to be [...]

Useful links

Copyright and Creative Commons | Common Craft ”The video helps to explain the basics of copyright law and creative commons licensing and the role each can play in helping creators protect and share their work.” Ten Websites for Science Teachers | Edutopia A list of some favorite online resources for science teachers that was created by blogger [...]

Useful sites

  by  Colette Cassinelli  From the Library of Congress: “Finding E-books: A Guide” « INFOdocket http://www.unescobkk.org/education/ict/online-resources/databases/ict-in-education-database/item/article/unesco-ict-competency-framework-for-teachers-version-20 An updated publication designed to help training teachers on ways to optimize the use of information and communication technologies in the classroom has been launched early November 2011 by UNESCO in cooperation with the Commonwealth of Learning, Intel and Microsoft. The ICT [...]

Tools at schools: a classroom for kids designed by kids

The holidays give me more of a chance to catch up with reading about the research and projects that are happening around the world. So I was interested in reading about  the Tools for schools project. It was a fantastic project involving year 8 students. The project was an initiative to teach younger secondary students the process of design as a problem-solving [...]

Tricider – more than just a polling tool

I came across this very recently and only looked at it more closely after work today. Tricider  is a very simple tool. It is easy to use, but also seems very versatile. The other good thing is that you do not need to register to use it. Teachers could easily use this with students to:  take [...]