This is a lovely demonstration that Keith Gibbs did last night in Chipping Campden school. You cannot see the elastic band hitting the paper at normal speed, but when I rendered the video digitally at 1000 fps using the SLOPRO…
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Too quick to see?
Posted in iPad Integration Tagged with: Apps, Chipping Campden, CollaboratEd, CollaboratEd.org.uk, CPD, iPad, iPhone, Physics, Science, SLOPRO
Numerical Reasoning for a medieval master mason
Following from my previous post on Minecraft and Medieval Castles I have been thinking about other ideas to support numerical reasoning through the theme of medieval castles and using Minecraft. This time I started from a question I created in this…
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Paired Reading with Puppet Pals
If you are a teacher and you own an iPad you will have heard of a great app called Puppet Pals, especially if you teach in Primary School. One fun way I used Puppet Pals was with my four boys, 2,…
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Minecraft and Medieval Castles (with a pinch of Numeracy too)
This video is an example of how you can use Minecraft on iPads/iPods to stimulate learners’ creativity and ask them questions about topics they are learning. Children could work collaboratively in small groups, like this example, and the teacher could…
Posted in Blog, Implementing, iPad Integration Tagged with: AfL, CollaboratEd, CPD, Formative Assessment, History, iPad, iPod Touch, Literacy, LNF, Minecraft, NSP, Numeracy
Tellagami and the Writing across the curriculum strand in the LNF
I’ve recently come across a really interesting app for developing literacy across the curriculum called Tellagami and I think it would be perfect to develop writing across the curriculum in the Literacy Framework in Wales and in particular the Writing…
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Peer Assessment with the Literacy and Numeracy Framework (LNF) and Aurasma
The video below is about Peer Assessment with LNF and it shows how a young learner can easily use the statements in the LNF skills to give meaningful feedback to his peer. In this case a Yr2 pupil has written…
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Efficiency of a ball with Vernier Video Physics app!
Today we run some training at King Edward VI School in Southampton and among the activities our delegates were asked to run they had to measure the efficiency of a ball using the excellent app Vernier Video Physics. Check the…
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iMotion HD – Lapse Photography and Crystal Formation
In this short post we want to show you what you can do with a pretty nice free app for iOS devices. iMotion HD lets you take time lapsed photos of anything you want and you can decide the interval…
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Peer Assessment with Aurasma
You might have heard of Aurasma and you might even use it in your school. If you belong to the second category, you already know how good it is and the potential it has to engage children in active and…
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QR Codes in Education
You’ve probably seen Quick Response (QR) Codes in a number of places by now. These are essentially squared bar codes that store information in a similar way to the price tags in supermarkets. Making the codes square allows for more…
Posted in iPad Integration Tagged with: App, Biggerplate, Classroom, Codes, CollaboratEd, CPD, Development, Ideas, iMindMap, Lesson, Mind Map, Professional, QR, QRstuff, Scan, technology, Training
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