Literacy Resources

This has to be one of the best resources that I have come across recently. Many thanks to Tim Brook for sharing on his blog Magic Lantern Movies.   A widget that allows others to upload film clips and then remix all the clips.  This would be a great activity for pupils to do over [...]

I am constantly amazed at the tools that are on the web and the fact that there are so many people out there willing to share them.  I found Thriller Whizz on Mark Warner’s wonderful site that includes Ideas to Inspire.  This one was on  Inspire Writing. Thriller Whizz is designed to generate titles for [...]

I recently read English at the Crossroads, OFSTED’s latest publication about English.  There are some  interesting statements about the use of ICT in English with the main thrust being that the most effective schools are the ones that  recognised  ICT had fundamentally altered reading and writing.  As technology changes so do the literacy needs of [...]

This post is day 17 of 20 days to better blogging with children and considers the use of widgets on blogs. A widget is a a chunk of code that adds content to a page.  Usually the content is not static.  For example, on the right hand side of this blog I have several widgets, [...]

I certainly had my horizons expanded today at the SWGfL ICT conference.  I particularly enjoyed hearing pupils talking about their use of ICT both at home and at school. Even the 15yr olds were surprised to hear the creative ways that the 10 yr olds had of getting around school filters! What became apparant was [...]