Data logging in an excellent example of how to integrate computing and technology into the primary curriculum. Using this equipment helps to bring science alive and develops children’s confidence with using technology that is different from what they usual encounter in class. Data logging equipment today is simple to use and reasonably priced. Data Harvest, […]
TeachMeet Newham TeachMeet Newham was a great night. This was my second TeachMeet event that I have presented at. I thoroughly enjoyed the evening and may I say the samosas were delicious. Many thanks to Jonny Walker @jonnywalker_edu for not only running a lovely evening but letting me take part. My presentation on podcasting in the primary […]
I am a fan of using photography in the classroom as you can see from previous blogs. At times though we need good quality photographs for teaching that we haven’t taken ourselves. We all know of Google search and other photography sites such as https://www.flickr.com. However we could run into licence and image quality issues. I do have […]
Lists, maybe you love them or hate them. Personally I am not very good at making them. However, today I appeared on one! Many thanks to Promethean World who listed me amongst their Twitter Recommendations here http://bit.ly/23Ox7VI I certainly appear alongside some impressive tweeters. Usually, these type of lists of recommended people always seem to have […]
After returning from Toulouse and running my one hour workshop there, I was then able to do the same with another one of our courses for Teaching Assistants here in Moscow. Initially, the plan was just for the workshop to involve the teaching assistants but due to time constraints we included the teachers into the […]
Supporting the EAL child in the Primary Science classroom requires the use of real concrete objects. Using real objects will provide more vocabulary. To get this message across I started off with the teachers gathering together all the vocabulary they could think of for a lemon. When they had done this, I then showed them a coloured […]
