Archive for August, 2007

How to survive secondary school?


VideoJug: Ask The Kids: How To Survive Secondary School

Another great little video, I like the idea of producing a similar video for College.

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How to get in your teacher’s good books?


VideoJug: Ask The Kids: How To Get In Your Teachers’ Good Books

I wonder what advice we would give students.

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Google Earth- A celestial view

As reported on the B.B.C. , Google Earth now allows you to view the night sky from your position on the Earth, it requires an update, perhaps this would be useful to our science colleagues? I had a good exploration of the sky.

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Embeddable Google Maps- Berlin Style.

Inspired by Noel Jenkins, I’ve been having a play with Google Maps for a couple of projects I want to work on over the coming year. The maps are now embeddable, you can add images and videos as well. Here is an example of a Berlin walk from the MFL-Humanities visit, including a video from student blogger Stringy, it took me around twenty minutes. Direct link.

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Animoto- Japanese Style.

I’ve been having a play with Animoto this evening, it allows you to produce impressive looking videos of your images. You only upload images and if you wish music, the website does all the hard work mixing the final product. I uploaded from my flickr account and used the music available. Short movies are free. This video shows images from our Japanese Exchange.

Hat-tip Justin Medved

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Blog Action Day

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Blog Action Day is on the 15th of October, topic the environment, I’ve signed up.

 

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Death by PowerPoint…

PowerPoint can be a great tool, especially when it is used creatively, Jackie Blackman, an R.S. teacher (the first R.S. teacher I have come across who blogs :) ), has kindly uploaded some templates of PowerPoint games that can be used in the classroom. Some will be familiar, others not, but they are great examples of how to adapt the use of PowerPoint for more stimulating activities…

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