Sparky Teaching

Sparky Teaching is a resource site which ( in their own words) is all about inspiring classrooms where ordinary things are thought about in less than ordinary ways. We provide creative teaching ideas, motivational and thinking skills resources to stimulate, enthuse and motivate your class… Everything we do comes from our belief that when your pupils are interested, that’s when they’ll succeed.…. Well worth a look !

More on Wordle

Mandy Barrow has just posted this link on Twitter … lots of really good ‘Wordle’ ideas … here

Vital – A new approach to ICT education

With a strap line of ‘Transforming lessons, inspiring learning’ Vital is ( as they say on their site)  a new approach to ICT education. The use of ICT in the classroom can enrich every subject at every level, inspiring and motivating students through new types of experiences and resources. Vital is an innovative new professional development programme which aims to help schools and colleges in England make the most of technology in the classroom.

The site will have its official in January but you can pre-register for information

NGfL Cymru GCaD

Some wonderful new ( at least to me) resources for teachers and children from Wales on the  NGfL Cymru GCaD site.  Just love the John Constable resources to support work on the study of  landscape and the  seasonal calendar is superb.

Many thanks to Mandy Barrow for ‘Twittering’ these resources.

Software Evaluations

If you want to check out the latest software evaluations by teachers it is always useful trying schoolzone.

Happy 2009 …

If you teach in England and want to know what 2009 might well bring to you, then want no more … read here !

100th Post in this incarnation

More and more and more … a list of  a list of a list of interactive ideas and activities… a Christmas present, but well worth spending some time on  …The Global Classroom .

APP Guidelines

John Sutton notices that James Mansell, from Suffolk, has put all the APP guidelines into a spreadsheet for you. You can find it here.

Ancient Rome as you have never seen it before

Google have recently released their latest ‘layer’ for Google Earth. It is an astounding new 3D view of the ancient buildings. It can be found in the Gallery section of Google Earth (you have to upgrade to the latest version to see it) and you will need some power in your computer to get the best out of it.

Do you ‘doodad’?

If you are a primary teacher then just visit the site of Mrs Pancake and I bet you will ‘doodad’ with the best !

This is what Mrs Pancake says about herself:

Mrs Pancake is the teacher everyone loves. She’s kind to the kids, always brings treats and just loves making Doodads – wonderful educational resources for parents and teachers.
Our lovely Doodads help teachers and parents teach literacy, numeracy, lots of topics and just generally make classrooms look great. Mrs P and her team hope to make learning interesting and fun.
Oh, and Mrs Pancake is as ’2.0′ as she is KS1. She’s on twitter and Facebook and has an RSS feed and everything!