Forgetting and Remembering

November 28, 2009

I had forgotten, and then rediscovered photopeach!  Since I last visited photopeach has added the facility to include a quiz. Working Walls on PhotoPeach Children under 13 must have the registration form completed by a parent/guardian.  There are a myriad of uses for teachers.  What do you do with all those photos taken during trips [...]


Great Video for the Literacy Classroom

June 7, 2009

This has to be my all time favourite video to be used as a model for children to create their own instructional videos. How To Make Folding Machine Tshirt – Click here for more blooper videos I love the way it uses still images to show what you need and that these are are inside [...]


Three Word Videos

February 19, 2009

What a wonderful event and what a wonderful idea.  Thanks @AngelaStockman for sharing it.  Make a video of three words that sum up your experience.  Here are the films from the Special Olympics.  I am amazed at the number of different ways they found to share those words. We could use this to summarise just [...]


Great Video – Searching on the Internet

February 3, 2009

Teaching children how to search the internet is a skill that all need.  The great wealth of information means that is a necessity.  This video is a brilliant way of introducing searching to KS2 children to ensure that are effective from Lee Lefever at Commoncraft.   If you are looking for models of explanations to share [...]


Photo Story 3 versus Animoto

January 8, 2009

There is a lot of talk at the moment about Animoto.  This is a site that you upload your images to, you can now add text and add music and it will then turn  your pictures into a film zooming in and out of the images and changing the transitions. My question is how is [...]