This week I’ve had a lovely time using 2Create a Super Story (or 2CASS) with pupils in Year 2. As I’ve said before, it’s a fantastic program to use with pupils as it’s so inclusive, lots of fun and can be used across age groups for all sorts of projects. This week the focus was [...]
You all know I’m passionate about inclusion and that means including pupils who are more able in certain areas. It’s something that we all need to be aware of in the classroom as such pupils need to be challenged there’s nothing worse than being bored. But how to do it? Where do you start? I [...]
We all know that pupils need choice when it comes to recording and plan their ideas. The written word can be the only outlet for some. Using pictures and bullet points might suit others. But simply speaking about your ideas, directly onto a digital recorder or another device, like an Easi-Speak microphone, can be a [...]
Boys. What can you do with them? Never a day goes by when you don’t read or watch something relating to improving attainment in boys. It wasn’t that long ago that we chatted about the differences between boys and girls learning styles on ukedchat and we’ve also seen Gareth Malone recently going on about it on our [...]
Here’s an idea for a very short ICT session. What if all the children all do something completely different? No two children covering the same topic. Each one working independently, at their own level using the software of their choice. The only criteria - they have to discover something new that they hadn’t known before. So this was how [...]
Trying to engage children through the medium of ICT is, in most cases, easy to do. There are so many different ways of making ICT engaging and ‘wow’ that children usually find software and activities that they just love to use! Game based learning, for example, is a fantastic way of inspiring writing and a great way [...]
Every so often something comes along and you just go ‘Wow!’. It happened a little while ago when I first got the chance to use 2Create a SuperStory, and when I saw Scholastic’s Story Stage. It happened a while back when I first tried out Ript, Prezi and Google Earth. Back in the day it even happened when I realised what [...]
Now I know there are lots of great products that assist with inclusion and are designed to make recording easy and, today, I’m going to highlight some you may, or may not, have heard of. Clicker 5 is an excellent piece of kit to have at your disposal as is Writing with Symbols. Helpkidzlearn (from the bods at Inclusive [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
