A while ago now, 4 years to be precise, I wrote a short post on Google Timeline Search and how it could be used in the classroom along with my thoughts. I was excited about the ability to see key/interesting events of a given period on a timeline and could …
This week I have started to use Twitter in my Year 1 class. Twitter is a great way to engage children with, and give them a reason for writing. This term was chosen as we currently have 10 eggs in the year group as we wait for them to hatch. Setting …
The Problem: It’s a very regular event in my classroom that a child will need to be selected to do something. Often this is a task that isn’t child / level specific so anyone would be suitable. I don’t notice that I can end up choosing the same child more …
Stellarium is an open-source astronomy application for all platforms. In their words: Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set …
I was looking around del.icio.us as I often to to pass sometime and found this website stripgenerator.com. I quickly made a cartoon strip (shown at the bottom of the post) in a couple of minutes with little inspiration, yes I know it shows! You get a set of characters, objects, …
