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The Curriculum Catalyst – Stage 2 – Contribute Your Ideas

March 12, 2010 - 9:20 pm

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The Curriculum Catalyst is about the online education community coming together to produce practical resources that we can all use to support curriculum development.
At the end of last weekend the Catalyst had over 280 topic ideas for the curriculum and over 70 people had voted more that 3000 times for a top topic. It turned [...]

5 Fledgling “Interesting Ways” Presentations

March 4, 2010 - 2:43 pm

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Currently there are close to 30 different presentations exploring Interesting Ways to use a whole variety of different types of technology in the classroom.
Here are a few of the most recent fledgling resources, please let me know if you would like to contribute by adding an idea.

Don’t forget to explore the rest of the Interesting [...]

The Curriculum Catalyst – Stage 1.5 – Which crowd-sourcing tool?

March 2, 2010 - 8:46 pm

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The Curriculum Catalyst has made a great start, it is only a few days old but 61 people have submitted 193 ideas and cast 1,896 votes. Thankyou to all of you who have helped so far.
Out of those 193 topic ideas will emerge one. For Stage 2 we will take that topic and crowd-source ideas, [...]

The Curriculum Catalyst – Stage 1 – Add your ideas and votes

February 28, 2010 - 4:08 pm

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It is clear from our collective efforts as an education community we can create some excellent resources. The “Interesting Ways” series has illustrated how single contributions to a collective can be extremely useful. This has been underlined by the “Maths Maps” too.
The “Interesting Ways” series has focused on single tools and how these can be [...]

#TBlesson Using Twitter to Explore the Language of Probability

February 26, 2010 - 9:31 pm

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Two years ago I had the idea of using replies from my Twitter network to gather responses about the probability of snow. What was planned as a plenary to a session ended up being expanded into a full hour long lesson. This week I taught the same maths topic and this post outlines the approach [...]

Are We The Resource I Have Been Looking For?

February 20, 2010 - 8:55 pm

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After some feedback and comments from Ben Barton and Sarah Brownsword on my previous post, I have begun to see another side to the third idea I outlined. The web application I proposed  would provide teachers the opportunity to find resources, connections and ideas all in one place – from one search query.

Vortex by phill.d
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3 Educational Web Applications I’d Like to Make

February 19, 2010 - 10:10 pm

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I am sure you have had moments when you discover your inner inventor too. Here are three web based applications I have much pondered and if I had more time, money, expertise would probably have made by now.

The old Story – A2 by h.koppdelaney
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StoryBook Earth
Inspired by my work on storytelling using Google Earth [...]

5 Weeks Left

February 18, 2010 - 9:24 pm

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~ Contact “X” ~ by ViaMoi
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I have 5 weeks left at my current school and then I will be moving on to my new appointment as Deputy Head at John Davies Primary School. It is an exciting time for me and I am looking forward to the challenge of establishing my role in a [...]

Blocked For Me, Open For You

February 7, 2010 - 8:51 pm

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pay heed by most uncool
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Children in my class cannot use YouTube at school, but as soon as they leave at the end of the day, they will.
Since the exponential growth of the online video giant I have never once used a video directly from YouTube in my classroom. It is exempt from my teaching [...]

Using Voicethread for Writing Ideas and for Peer Marking

February 1, 2010 - 8:04 pm

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In the past week or so our literacy work has focused on a short sequence from the comic Spiderman #1. Our Superheroes topic is going well and in this post I explain how we have used Voicethread as a creation tool, a writing scaffold and as a way to do peer marking.
We began with the sequence in [...]

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