Ideas to Inspire

Mark Warner of Teaching Ideas has created this set of resources based on the fantastic work of Tom Barrett – ‘Ideas to Inspire’ is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.

The presentations are grouped into different sections:
Curriculum Ideas Providing ideas and resources, linked to specific curriculum areas.
Interesting ways to use ICT in your classroom These presentations focus on one particular ICT hardware tool and suggest ways of using that tool in your classroom.
Interesting ways to use ICT in your classroom Another set of ‘Interesting Ways’ presentations which share classroom uses for a range of software and online tools.
Other Collaborative presentations Techy Tips for non-techy teachers This section contains even more collaborative presentations, covering a range of topics.. Techy Tips, Inspiring Youtube videos, Games to support learning and more…

6 Interesting ways to use an iPod Touch

Tom Barrett has developed  the framework for many really useful ‘ Interesting Ways…‘ themes and these have been contributed to by people from all across the world. His latest is ’6 Interesting ways to use an iPod Touch’ and is a great starter for those teachers and schools who recognise the power of personal, hand-held technologies for teaching and learning.

Interesting Ways – Tom Barrett

Tom is a teacher at a primary school in Sutton-in Ashfield and he has developed a series of ideas called ‘Interesting Ways‘. In the series he collects, from around the world, ideas for using web2.0 apps in real classroom contexts.

Currently there are ideas for:

• Sparkly
• Audio
• Wall Wisher
• Writing
• Google Wave
• iPod Touch
• Nintendo Wii
• Wiki
• Visualiser
• Twitter
• Wordle
• Pocket Video
• Google Docs
• Google Earth
• Nintendo DS
• Search Engines
• Interactive Whiteboard
• Prezi
• Voice Tread

Google Earth Maths Activities

Tom Barrett has been working on some Google Earth Maths Activities based in major cities in Europe.

There is a ’25 Measures Activity’  based in Madrid and ’24 Shape activity’ based in Paris.

Imaginative use of ICT within a curriculum context !

Wordle revisited

If you haven’t yet managed to discover the wonders of Wordle then this set of ideas from Tom Barrett should give you and your children a real creative start.

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends.