Today I stumbled across this tool called Stripgenerator whilst looking through my Google reader. There seem to be a lot of flash based comic book creators out there at the moment and I’ve already blogged about Comiqs. I decided that I’d follow the same sort of format and allow the children a complete carte blanche to [...]
Entries from July 22, 2008
Leavers Presentation using Animoto
July 15, 2008 · 3 Comments · Tools
I have to say I love the work of Animoto. I wanted to put together a presentation for the end of the Leavers Assembly that would tug at the old heart strings and I think that this will do it. Really easy to sort out once you’ve registered. Thanks also to ‘the guys’ for sorting [...]
Parents Evening Using Google Docs.
July 15, 2008 · 2 Comments · Google Docs, Tools
Arranging the timetable for parents evening can be a real hassle in terms of the communication that is involved. Parents keep asking for times that are taken and cancelling others, often leading to a mass of notes flying backwards and forwards between teacher and parent. This year I decided that it would be different… As [...]
Tags: communication·Google Docs·parents
Lively room for Edubloggers
July 14, 2008 · No Comments · Tools
I came across this room yesterday. It’s an interesting idea for bringing educators together.
Tags: edubloggers·lively·sharing·twitter
Publishing Children’s Digital work – The Results
July 9, 2008 · No Comments · Literacy, Tools, Writing, Year 6
A week or so ago I posted about a site called Lulu which allowed you to publish children’s work. I recieved the results yesterday and I have to say that I was very impressed with the results. The whole process from ordering to the books arriving took just over a week and the quality of [...]
Tags: lulu.com·publishing·Writing·Year 6·yearbook
It’s only a comic isn’t it?
July 4, 2008 · 6 Comments · D & T, Literacy, Tools, Writing
AIM: To give the children an open ended task without constraint and see what they produced. To record the skill that I observed and that were being developed. To have some fun! WHY: After yesterday’s post about the massive change I believe needs to take place in education, I decided that I needed to put [...]
The Revolution is here, the Revolution is education!
July 3, 2008 · No Comments · Journal
Over the past few weeks I have become more and more convinced that there needs to be a revolution in the way in which we view the education of our future learners. I have become passionate about the need to change almost to the point of obsession. I defy anyone to watch the following presentation [...]
Publishing Children’s Digital Work – A Solution?
July 3, 2008 · 3 Comments · Tools, Year 6
AIM: To write a Year book for the leavers of Year Six. WHY: To give the children a nice momento of their time at our school. To create a sense of occasion as the children leave. When I was on a course on Friday Stephen Drury showed me a great publishing site called Lulu. Immediately [...]
Tags: lulu.com·publishing
