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ICT Inspiration out of the Bronx (NYC, USA)

I would like to introduce you to an inspirational teacher.  She teaches in the Bronx in a school commonly known as “The Google School”, because all the teachers use Google Documents, and all the students have access to their own laptop.  This school sits...

This is Sand (www.thisissand.com)

I was reading a Grade 1 teacher’s blog pages recently (http://classblogmeister.com/blog.php?blogger_id=1337 and http://staff.prairiesouth.ca/~cassidy.kathy/index.html), and came upon this fun tool.  It is an online program called “This is sand”...

What students need to know in order to blog!

Rationale for student blogs:- To give students a platform to connect, communicate and collaborate with an authentic  audience that includes students, teachers, parents, local community and a global community. Blogging is a tool that allows students to make their work...

Maths concepts and virtual manipulatives

Sitting in a doctor’s waiting room (as you do!) the other day, I read one of those waiting room magazines with the crossword puzzles and jokes.  One of these jokes was: The mother asked the birthday boy: ‘Do you want your birthday cake cut into twelve...

Student Composition

This is a combination of three posts on Student Composition Dissonance and Consonance Its great to be starting our composition unit with grades 5 and 6 this term. Kynan Robinson and I love teaching this unit because its a great opportunity to see and hear student...

Vimeo

Most teachers are familiar with YouTube and Teacher Tube. Vimeo is another piece of freeware which enables you and your students to showcase your video work. Vimeo promotes itself as being a respectful community of creative people who are passionate about sharing the...

Netbooks Project

Netbooks is a blog container that has been created to contain Global Projects that are being undertaken as a part of the Victorian Government Netbook Project. In a 1-to-1 learning program, each learner has a portable, networked, digital device such as a notebook,...

TUX4KIDS – Free for School or Home

Tux Paint, Tux Typing and Tux Math are three of the ongoing projects belonging to Tux4Kids. Tux Paint, Tux Typing and Tux Math are free software applications that you can download and run on your home or school computers. If you would like to know more, you can read...