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 #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 [...]
At Education Reach we are constantly hearing about creative and innovative ways of using ICT inside and out of the classroom. We will soon be starting a weekly blog entitled “Reach into the Toolbox” where we can share these with you so that you can build up your own ‘toolbox’ of websites, tips and ideas which can be used [...]
