Microsoft Publisher is a fantastic and versatile desktop publishing program but a number of people never use it unless they want to create a brochure. Why? Because they just feel it’s too complicated to use regularly and they would rather stick with Word and PowerPoint. Yet, once you get to grips with it , Microsoft Publisher is a joy to use [...]
We all use PowerPoint. Some of us love it, some of us hate it, but we all get to grips with it and most people use it in their classrooms many times during a school week. It’s always worth working on developing PowerPoint skills. But, sometimes, the simplest things in PowerPoint are the best. Often [...]
Another Day – another PowerPoint Project. Today looking at designing your own PowerPoint templates.Now if you want to start creating your own PowerPoint templates there are tutorials for 2003 and 2007 available online to walk you through the process. For maximum impact it’s also an opportunity to use art based or photo editing software – I’m [...]
So, over a week has passed since I staggered through my door after a whirlwind visit the the BETT show in London’s Olympia and it seems as good a time as any to talk about some of the amazing things I saw on offer. I think 2010 will prove to be a real turning point in the [...]
It’s always important to investigate famous news stories of the past. just as long as it links to a topic that you’re covering in school. There are so many old news stories out there you could choose from World War 2, the 1960s, stories that linked to your local area or stories about extreme weather – [...]
Thinking Skills are becoming increasingly important in Primary education. Mind Mapping, Brainstorming, Thought Explosions…call it whatever you like, it’s something that we are all using more and more in the classroom. Finding applications that are suitable to use with primary age children (and straightforward enough for them to us independently) can be a challenge. There are [...]
Like many other technologically minded people I made the (in my case long) trek to Olympia last week to spend a bit of quality time at the BETT2010. My main objective was to get to the Teachmeet and pick up some useful and interesting tips from other like minded professionals but, I have to admit, the whole [...]
It’s been a busy and unusual day for me and today’s rushed feeling got me thinking. Sometimes we all need to unwind. There are times when I just want to sit at the computer and waste a bit of time doing nothing much – just kill time. I’m sure we all feel like that sometimes. [...]
I’ve felt very honoured this week to have had the opportunity to have a good look at the latest excellent piece of software from the bods at 2Simple: 2Create a Superstory. Now I know I use 2Simple software a lot and talk about the benefits of it all the time but 2Simple have really outdone [...]
Ript is a really cool tool to use with the pupils when covering different ways of collecting internet research. Of course there are any number of ideas you can use for this (and if you want some ideas just check out this link with ideas collected by Simon Haughton) but Ript is a little different [...]
