Doorway Online Interactive and Accessible Learning – http://www.doorwayonline.org.uk/– an array of free online teaching resources which can be used by early learners independently or as classroom activities led by a teacher on an interactive whiteboard. These support learning and teaching in literacy (letter and number formation, first sounds, first words, first blends, spelling using look, …
Category: Interactive Whiteboard
“Ae fond Click!” – using digital tools to support classroom activities on Scotland’s Bard Robert Burns
For many Scottish schools in January there is often an emphasis in the classroom on work on the life and literature of Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns. The following resources provide ideas for how ICT tools can be used to provide different ways of helping to engage pupils with the study of the life and …
SMART Exchange – SMART Board Resources for the Classroom Teacher
If your classroom has a SMART Board in it then a huge wealth of resources is available free to you online, making use of the SMART Board’s own interactive software, SMART Notebook, at SMART Exchange. This lets you browse through thousands of resources created by teachers worldwide, or you can filter your search to resources suitable …
Video Tutorials to help get smarter at using your SMART Board interactive whiteboard in the classroom
http://www.fuuni.com/smart/smart In order for an interactive whiteboard to become more than simply a projection board, a teacher with a SMART Board interactive whiteboard needs to know how to make use of the interactive features of a SMART Board. And in order to become comfortable in using these tools this site http://www.fuuni.com/smart/smart provides for teachers an easily …
Handling the Information – Databases in the Primary Classroom
Handling the Information – using Databases in the Primary Classroom. In this information age being able to use a database is an essential skill. Databases are all around us and being able to use them effectively is seen as an essential skill for pupils. The task for the teacher is finding age-appropriate databases and contexts which will appeal to …
Fun or fear? Spreadsheets for Problem Solving in the Primary Classroom – fun over fear!
Mention spreadsheets to some teachers and there may be a visible shudder! For those unfamiliar with the use of spreadsheets in a primary classroom they don’t tend to conjure up ideas of a fun activity for pupils. Part of the reason for that is that for those who have used spreadsheets in their adult life, …
Lingro – add to any website for interactive dictionary and word games
Lingro – http://lingro.com/ – if you want to use a website with pupils but think that pupils would be helped by having an on-hand interactive dictionary then consider using Lingro. Just copy the website address of the website you wish to suggest to your pupils (e.g. www.bbc.co.uk) and paste into the textbox on the Lingro site. Now when you …
2Simple Infant Video Toolkit – it’s nothing to do with video!
2Simple infant video toolkit from http://www.2simple.com/ comprises six programs for early years introducing basic skills, and supported by excellent video lessons aimed at teachers using them with the pupils (that’s where the “video” fits in the title!). 2Paint – Draw pictures with a very simple painting program 2Publish – Combine words & pictures & create letters, borders, envelopes & much …
Google Earth in the primary classroom
http://www.google.com/earth/index.html Google Earth allows you to travel the world through a virtual globe and view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, and much more. You can navigate to locations anywhere in the world. And it is free to download. So you have Google Earth on your computer and you want to know how to use it? Click the …
I can’t see back here! Using a visualiser or document camera in the classroom
A visualiser (sometimes called a document camera) lets a teacher display something small to a whole class via a PC and projector. This means that a teacher can demonstrate to a whole class something which would be difficult to show to a whole class without the whole class gathered round a table vying for space …
