It is great when a child teaches you something new! Right in the middle of the blogging lesson and after I had said that there is no way of spell checking your work when writing a post – a girl in my class tells me a solution!
Google toolbar spell checker!
Works a charm – click on the ABC icon and this switches on the spell checker. (Using Internet Explorer) Words in the form you are working in are highlighted and underlined in red if they are incorrectly spelled. Choosing such a word gives a little drop down list of possible alternatives – take your choice and the replaced word is underlined and coloured in green. Then click the ABC button again to switch it off. Simple.
There seems to be an AUTOFIX option too which I will explore.
Isn’t it great when our own knowledge is extended by those we are teaching.