We will continue to adapt, change and improve this wiki and you may want to contribute and improve it too, email Anthony or Nic with any suggestions or galring omissions, otherwise feel fre to use the wiki in your work.
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Animation Course
Last week, Nicholas ran the animation course, and looked at using 2Animate to create GIFS, alongside stop motion work with Digi-Blue. The group also explored a more demanding, avatar based 3d application,Kahootz. In a bold new move away from paper based handouts, we created a wiki for this course ( See below).
We will continue to adapt, change and improve this wiki and you may want to contribute and improve it too, email Anthony or Nic with any suggestions or galring omissions, otherwise feel fre to use the wiki in your work.
We will continue to adapt, change and improve this wiki and you may want to contribute and improve it too, email Anthony or Nic with any suggestions or galring omissions, otherwise feel fre to use the wiki in your work.
Subject Leaders
Subject Leader meet on July 9th
We are in the process of putting togther the agenda at the moment and as usual the afternoon will see an opportunity to share Good Practice.
If you are coming, please, please add your name to the wiki and link to the website, blog, film or example of good practice to share with use. We already have submissions from:
We are in the process of putting togther the agenda at the moment and as usual the afternoon will see an opportunity to share Good Practice.
If you are coming, please, please add your name to the wiki and link to the website, blog, film or example of good practice to share with use. We already have submissions from:
- Anthony Evans-
- Nicholas Hughes
- Dawn Halybone
- Helen Dupree
Saturday, 31 May 2008
Redbridge ICT Conference Roundup.
In case you missed last weeks conference, here are three videos of the event.
Videos:
Introduction to the conference
Ewan McIntosh
Karl Hopwood
In case you missed last weeks conference, here are links to 3 podcasts of the event.
(To be added soon)
1. Introduction to the Event bu Antony Evans and Peter Shepard.
2. Ewan McIntosh - Participation Culture
2. Karl Hopwood - e-Safety in schools
Videos:
Introduction to the conference
Ewan McIntosh
Karl Hopwood
In case you missed last weeks conference, here are links to 3 podcasts of the event.
(To be added soon)
1. Introduction to the Event bu Antony Evans and Peter Shepard.
2. Ewan McIntosh - Participation Culture
2. Karl Hopwood - e-Safety in schools
Thursday, 29 May 2008
Dawn's conference notes
Thanks to Dawn Halybone who has sent in her notes she made during the conference and Teachmeet.
Website updates!!!!
Here are some fab websites that I have found – hopefully they will prove useful!
http://www.jumpcut.com/ – enables you to share photos and videos – you can also re arrange adverts from top name brands – a useful link to Literacy perhaps?
http://www.earth.google.com/ – when the new system gets put in this will be on the system – a fantastic tool for Geography and used in conjunction with Flickr enables you to ‘fly’ to your destination.
http://www.flickr.com/ - a fantastic photo sharing website – I am currently setting up a group site – similar to blogging but will enable us to upload art work – this site enables you to do amazing things – can create a galaxy, put post it notes on photos – really worth checking out! It also has some great groups – classroom displays – lots of ideas!, six word story – does what it says in the name, tell a story in 5 frames – again does what it says on the tin!
http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/ - a website that gives advice and lessons on e safety!
http://www.gogivers.org/kids_home.cfm a great PHSE resource with lesson plans and ability for children to create timelines and vote for school councillors.
http://www.classtools.net/ – some excellent ‘games’ for IWB – includes a fruit machine which randomly selects childrens names for answering questions and my favourite a timer that counts down to tv theme tunes including mission impossible and Dr who!
Website updates!!!!
Here are some fab websites that I have found – hopefully they will prove useful!
http://www.jumpcut.com/ – enables you to share photos and videos – you can also re arrange adverts from top name brands – a useful link to Literacy perhaps?
http://www.earth.google.com/ – when the new system gets put in this will be on the system – a fantastic tool for Geography and used in conjunction with Flickr enables you to ‘fly’ to your destination.
http://www.flickr.com/ - a fantastic photo sharing website – I am currently setting up a group site – similar to blogging but will enable us to upload art work – this site enables you to do amazing things – can create a galaxy, put post it notes on photos – really worth checking out! It also has some great groups – classroom displays – lots of ideas!, six word story – does what it says in the name, tell a story in 5 frames – again does what it says on the tin!
http://www.thinkuknow.co.uk/ - a website that gives advice and lessons on e safety!
http://www.gogivers.org/kids_home.cfm a great PHSE resource with lesson plans and ability for children to create timelines and vote for school councillors.
http://www.classtools.net/ – some excellent ‘games’ for IWB – includes a fruit machine which randomly selects childrens names for answering questions and my favourite a timer that counts down to tv theme tunes including mission impossible and Dr who!
Wednesday, 28 May 2008
Flickr Slideshows Again
Yesterday I posted about a tool that allows you to embed a slide show of Flickr images (Pictobrowser), though this is a great tool which gives a nice clean display, it did not allow me to create a show of images based on a group or tag. Now I have found a slideshow tool that allows me to create a show based on either a user, group or tag. This has allowed me to embed a slide show on the Teachmeet site based on the tag teachmeetnel. Great!!
The slide show below is a display of all the images from the London borough of Redbridge Pool and was easy to embed, once you found the group id. Instructions for which are given on the Flickr Slide show Generator website. but if you miss them you need to:
Go to the group you want to get pictures from -
click on post new topic -
the url will end with a long code like this 38113494@N00
copy this part of the url and paste into the group id box of Flickr Slideshow Generator
Copy the code and paste onto your site/blog
Easy
The London Borough of Redbridge Flickr Pool - enjoy
The slide show below is a display of all the images from the London borough of Redbridge Pool and was easy to embed, once you found the group id. Instructions for which are given on the Flickr Slide show Generator website. but if you miss them you need to:
Go to the group you want to get pictures from -
click on post new topic -
the url will end with a long code like this 38113494@N00
copy this part of the url and paste into the group id box of Flickr Slideshow Generator
Copy the code and paste onto your site/blog
Easy
The London Borough of Redbridge Flickr Pool - enjoy
Tuesday, 27 May 2008
New Tools and links May 08
Here are some new tools and general links that have been buzzing around my feed reader over the last few weeks. There are probably over 30 more but I have only included a small selection here. I hope these are tools that you would find useful in the classroom.
Let me know your thoughts and perhaps you can input comments below or at the next ICT Subject Leaders event (9th of July or course book now @Redbridgepdc)
Aniboom.com-
Aniboom is a great place to watch short animations, and thus would be a great springboard for animation projects. Though as with every site, check it out before you share it out! There are also two free creative tools on the site that allow you to make your own animations. There is the Shapeshifter tool which allows you to create simple animations using the geometric shapes. It seemed quite easy to use, though there were some small irritations, such as not being able to copy and paste shapes and group objects only seemed to last per frame. However there were some nice tools and effects, for example you could add music and there appeared to be folders of special effects, which I have yet to explore. I also like the bomb icon which basically made all your shapes explode gradually across the screen- instant animation there! The completed animation could quickly and easily be saved as a gif , file- thus this could then be stored on a hard drive for pasting into SMART notebook, PowerPoint or uploaded to a website.
Alongside the Shapeshifter, the site also has a web cam application (Microsmotion) that lets you capture images and add silly effects. For instance you can marvel as an arrow goes through your head or you can bounce a (virtual) football on your head.
Have a look and enjoy ( lets hope Aniboom isn't blocked in school!!)
A big 8.76 out of 10 for me on this one!
IBoard New Maths
Subject Leaders and and anyone on any of my IWB training gigs will be familiar with this one. Its those lovely IBoard sims and demo tools again, but this time they are all pegged down to the Renewed Framework.I had been showing these on a BETA site, but now the product is officially on the London Grid for Learning (apologies non London people) and will therefore work in school or @ home with your LGFL logon. I note the site is still in BETA version and though most things work as they should, there is still the occasional anomaly and some things don't work as you'd want or expect, but there is the opportunity to feedback your comments and this will allow the developer to update and improve the tools.
The write up on the LGFL site goes something like this:
At every level, the user can:• launch the activity• check the Help button for the selected activity to find out how the activity works• send feedback on the activity (or suggestions for new ones) back to the developers at I-Board
I have been using these for quite a while now and I like them a lot, they are great for lessons that involve any sort of scales or measurements. Furthermore the images and animation is bright and easy on the eye without the patronising silly reward dances of some Maths content sites. But then these are not games, they are teaching tools in the style of ITPs.
Let me know your thoughts and perhaps you can input comments below or at the next ICT Subject Leaders event (9th of July or course book now @Redbridgepdc)
Aniboom.com-
Aniboom is a great place to watch short animations, and thus would be a great springboard for animation projects. Though as with every site, check it out before you share it out! There are also two free creative tools on the site that allow you to make your own animations. There is the Shapeshifter tool which allows you to create simple animations using the geometric shapes. It seemed quite easy to use, though there were some small irritations, such as not being able to copy and paste shapes and group objects only seemed to last per frame. However there were some nice tools and effects, for example you could add music and there appeared to be folders of special effects, which I have yet to explore. I also like the bomb icon which basically made all your shapes explode gradually across the screen- instant animation there! The completed animation could quickly and easily be saved as a gif , file- thus this could then be stored on a hard drive for pasting into SMART notebook, PowerPoint or uploaded to a website.
Alongside the Shapeshifter, the site also has a web cam application (Microsmotion) that lets you capture images and add silly effects. For instance you can marvel as an arrow goes through your head or you can bounce a (virtual) football on your head.
Have a look and enjoy ( lets hope Aniboom isn't blocked in school!!)
A big 8.76 out of 10 for me on this one!
IBoard New Maths
Subject Leaders and and anyone on any of my IWB training gigs will be familiar with this one. Its those lovely IBoard sims and demo tools again, but this time they are all pegged down to the Renewed Framework.I had been showing these on a BETA site, but now the product is officially on the London Grid for Learning (apologies non London people) and will therefore work in school or @ home with your LGFL logon. I note the site is still in BETA version and though most things work as they should, there is still the occasional anomaly and some things don't work as you'd want or expect, but there is the opportunity to feedback your comments and this will allow the developer to update and improve the tools.
The write up on the LGFL site goes something like this:
The popular i-board resources on LGfL have now been upgraded to provide complete coverage for the renewed numeracy framework. They are organised into the seven new strands across each year group for Reception, Year 1 and Year 2 .
There are hundreds of interactive maths activities to strengthen pedagogy and employ whiteboards as an effective resource.
At every level, the user can:• launch the activity• check the Help button for the selected activity to find out how the activity works• send feedback on the activity (or suggestions for new ones) back to the developers at I-Board
I have been using these for quite a while now and I like them a lot, they are great for lessons that involve any sort of scales or measurements. Furthermore the images and animation is bright and easy on the eye without the patronising silly reward dances of some Maths content sites. But then these are not games, they are teaching tools in the style of ITPs.
The more I play with this site- the more I find that I like and feel could be useful to be included in a Key Stage 1 Teachers toolbox of models, images and simulations.
My current favourites so far are:
The Interactive Number Square- which includes paint brushes to highlight squares and a magic wand for making numbers disappear or reappear.
Pizza bears- share out the pizza for the bears and if there are
not enough to go round then slice it up. This is a nice open ended simulation with no right or wrong, hence allowing for lots of discussion and possibilities.
Many of you Redbridge bloggers have often asked me - how do I embed a Flickr slideshow on my blog, well currently I think Pictobrowser is the easiest tool for this and seems to give the best results. See the example below:
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