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Screencasting with IWB Software
If you have a Smartboard or a Promethean board then you already have the software to allow you to make screencasts. A screencast is a way of capturing everything that you do on a computer screen with...
View ArticleTeachMeet Takeover Talk pt1
Thanks to Kevin Mulryne for filming the first part of my TeachMeet Takeover talk at BETT 2011 yesterday. The theme of the talk was – Essential Digital Media for your Interactive Whiteboard. The full...
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8 Great Online Presentation Tools
Here are 8 alternatives to giving a presentation with PowerPoint. As well as standard presentations, some of these tools create slideshows from sets of images. They are all free, or at least have a...
View ArticleCapzles – digital storytelling and presentation tool
Capzles is an interesting digital storytelling tool that allows users to tell a story using pictures, video clips, audio tracks and text. Users are given the ability to place this media, called...
View ArticleEssential Digital Resources for your IWB (2011)
Here’s an online version of the Essential Digital Resources presentation that I gave at last week’s Teacher2Teacher conference in Canada. This is a longer version of the presentation I gave at...
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Spice up Powerpoints with Mouse Mischief
Mouse Mischief is a free plug in for PowerPoint 2007/2010 which lets you create quizzes and polls which the class can interact with via wireless mice. Once installed, a new toolbar appears which lets...
View ArticleNow Let’s Write It Up : A Teachmeet Presentation
Here’s a copy of a presentation I produced for TeachMeet Brighton and Teachmeet Moray House (TMMH11) as well as being shown at TeachMeet Dorset. The theme was to demonstrate several alternatives to the...
View ArticleInanimate Alice Presentation from BETT
Here’s a copy of my Inanimate Alice presentation from the BETT show on Friday as part of TeachMeet Takeover. Thanks to all those who came to watch, and thanks to Promethean for letting me have some...
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Making your Interactive Whiteboard POP with BrainPOP UK : Free Webinar
I’ve teamed up with those clever people at BrainPOP UK to present one of their free online webinars in a few weeks time. The subject will be “Making your Interactive Whiteboard POP with BrainPOP“. In...
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IWB TeachMeet Roehampton : Links and Files
There was an excellent IWB TeachMeet last night at Roehampton Universty. I gave a short talk on lesson starter ideas for your IWB. You can see an (old) version of the presentation here. The Magic Paper...
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ICT, Interactive Whiteboards and Attainment, a literature review
This is a short section taken from my Masters Dissertation on the use of ICT by student teachers. I thought this section might be of interest to readers of this blog and that some of you would find the...
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L4LTV Launches – Online CPD by Teachers for Teachers
Learn 4 Life (L4LTV) is a new web-TV service for the education community, filling the gap left with the demise of Teacher’s TV. Learn 4 Life aims to provide updates on pedagogy and practice in...
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10 Online Alternatives to PowerPoint for Creating Great Presentations
In many schools, Microsoft PowerPoint is still the go-to software when creating presentations. But it does have its limitations, and there’s also the problem of “death by PowerPoint”. Sometimes it’s...
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Record and share lessons with PixiClip online whiteboard
Pixiclip is an online whiteboard that lets you record your annotations as you make them, along with your voice and even webcam footage. If you’ve used iPad apps like Explain Everything then you’ll get...
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Canva – A Free Online Presentation and Design Tool
Canva is a free web tool (and iPad app) which allows people with limited knowledge of graphic design to produce effective presentations and other publications. The platform allows users to visually...
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Barriers to Successful Integration of Educational Technology
This is an extract of a literature review I undertook for my Master’s dissertation. I was interested in some of the barriers that were stopping some schools using educational technology effectively,...
View ArticleEdtech In the Classroom : Evolution not Revolution
Many things have claimed that they will revolutionize education, from motion pictures, to radios, to CD-ROMs. Now there is a wealth of information and video on the internet should we expect it to...
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Creative Use of ICT in Science : ASE Conference Talk 2016
This weekend I gave a talk at the ASE Conference in Birmingham. The subject was the creative use of ICT in Science. You can download a pdf version of the presentation here. Here are the main tools, and...
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