Having heard quite a bit about geocaching over the last year, I thought I would give it a go this summer holiday. I had watched a few presentations on it at various TeachMeets, followed a few tweets about it and spoken to a few friends about what was required. The whole concept is quite exciting [...]
With changes in legislation governing school communication coming in to force in September, many schools are refreshing or rebuilding their websites over the summer holidays. But what should you consider when creating a website for a school? What are your audience looking for when they visit your website? Our top tips for a successful school [...]
Reach into the Toolbox #9 The Photosynth tools from Microsoft allow you to create visually stunning photographs from single images which are then ‘stitched’ together. The example below was taken by my colleague Steph as we left the BETT show in January 2012. A view of BETT 2012 on Wednesday evening as the last visitors were leaving. [...]
Reach into the Toolbox #6 I must begin with week’s blog with a confession – I am absolutely rubbish at art or anything remotely artistic, I know nothing, I am completely incompetent. At primary school my teacher had to salvage all of my efforts to make them look like something recognisable. My secondary school art [...]
Reach into the Toolbox #5 I know this is old hat…..I know Photostory has been around for years…. but I absolutely love this free download from Microsoft. This simple wizard based programme allows you to upload and edit images, add text, narration and music as well as play with image transitions and effects. The resulting effect is [...]
Happy Leap Day from Education Reach! Today is a very special day, not only because of our excitement trying to get hold of the Raspberry Pi this morning, but also because of a brilliant project running today. The 29th of February only comes around once every 4 years and @deputymitchell (David Mitchell, Deputy Head at Heathfield Primary [...]
Reach into the Toolbox #4 Wordle allows you to create “word clouds” from text that you provide: just copy and paste some text into the text box and press Go! Wordle uses the number of times a word appears in a text to determine its relative size – the more frequent the word, the larger it [...]
Reach into the Toolbox #3 This week’s offering from Education Reach is a website called Ideas to Inspire which highlights not just one tool, but a variety of tools and ideas about using ICT in the classroom to enhance, inspire and motivate (you and your pupils!). Contributions to each category have come from teachers all over the [...]
Reach into the Toolbox #2 Choose a picture from the Piclits picture gallery. The website supplies a list of nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and ‘universal’ words and punctuation which are appropriate to the chosen picture. Simply drag and drop words onto the picture to create a sentence, poem, list, phrase etc. A drop down box allows you to [...]
Reach into the Toolbox #1 If this series of blogs is going to highlight useful Internet tools for education, I thought I’d better start with an organisational tip……. Social Bookmarking …….. saving your favourite websites into an online social bookmarking site. This means that you can access your favourites from any machine with an Internet [...]
