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Karl Newman from Sevenoaks Primary sent me a link that I just had to share! Three children from Karl's Year One class had been using 2Create A Story to write about 'Sam The Spaceman'. They used a USB microphone to record their voices. Once...
Spelltube www.spelltube.co.uk " Spelltube brings the weekly spelling list into the technological age. " Spelltube is a fun spelling website that allows teachers to assign video-based spelling lists to their pupils. At present it is aimed at...
There's a new metal detectors page on Kent NGfL. It includes instructions for how to use the metal detector and downloadable .pdf files for printing. http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/metalDetector Ideas include shape bingo, bear bingo, phonemes...
Hopping down in Kent www.hoppingdowninkent.org.uk We have chosen Hopping Down in Kent because hopping is mentioned in Nigel Hinton's story " Beavers Towers: Mission to Kent " which he wrote especially for Kent schools. On Thursday 23 October...
Elastoplast Stories www.elastoplaststories.co.uk Elastoplast, the sticking-plaster manufacturer, has designed a fun website for kids. The idea behind the interactive micro-site is that every injury tells a story. Pupils can let their imaginations run...
" Using ICT to inspire a creative approach to writing - Emerging from the Myst. " For Key Stages 1, 2 and 3 This new and exciting Kent writing project has been inspired by the work of Tim Rylands, who has gained notable recognition for using...
Spelling City www.spellingcity.com Spellingcity.com is a free spelling tool that can help make the teaching of spelling more exciting. With online spelling games, spelling reviews, and spelling quizzes, pupils can memorise their weekly spelling words...
Into the Book: Teaching Reading Comprehension Strategies reading.ecb.org Into the Book is designed to enhance the teaching and learning of reading comprehension strategies for primary students. The website focuses on eight strategies that proficient readers...
19 January - a whole day workshop for 200 Kent teachers. This new and exciting Kent project has been inspired by the work of Tim Rylands, who has been described as “an extremely gifted and inspirational teacher, with a love of the creative potential of...
The Maths and Literacy games pages have changed over the summer. www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games There were two purposes for this..... firstly to provide more help information for each game. As some of the games are indecipherable! Secondly I wanted all...
"A VoiceThread is an online media album that can hold essentially any type of media (images, documents and videos) and allows people to make comments in 5 different ways - using voice (with a microphone or telephone), text, audio file, or video ...
Alisa Miller @ Smartteaching.org has created a useful list of "100 Awesome Classroom Videos to Learn New Teaching Techniques ". "Whether you are a new teacher storing up tips and tricks or an experienced teacher who could just use a fresh...
In Kent, we have many schools eager to use the computer game 'Myst', after being inspired by Tim Rylands at our recent ICT Conference. January 2009 is the official launch of Kent's writing project using the computer game Myst, when we will...
19 January - a whole day workshop for 200 Kent teachers. Contact mandy.barrow@kent.gov.uk for further details After Tim's inspirational afternoon presentation at the EIS ICT Conference , we are inviting Tim down to Kent for the last two weeks of January...
The Kented website has been moved onto the Kent servers and we are presently experiencing problems editing pages. So ..... Please find below our website of the week for this week: Tikatok is a free creative community for kids under 13 where they can write...
Taggalaxy is one of many online tools that that is a search engine for Flickr. ( Flickr is a photo sharing site powered by Yahoo! that allows users to upload and share their photos. http://taggalaxy.de/ The way it works is that you type in your key word...
Tutpup is an exciting and new safe way of playing games against children in the UK and across the world. It is free , has no ads , doesn't grab kids personal data and allows them to play competitive maths games against their friends or students from...
Doctor Who is very popular with a lot of pupils. Here is the link to the BBC where pupils can create their own trailer. http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/trailermaker/ A great activity to do during an ICT Club. This site and many more have been added to...
Limerick Day celebrates the birthday of Writer Edward Lear (1812-1888) who is well known for his limericks in his "Book of Nonsense". Click here for teaching resources
Here is a website where you can download picture books for free! http://www.childrensbooksforever.com/ This site and many more have been added to kented on del.icio.us Add us to your network To find out more about del.icio.us click here
In an English activity this week 5-6 year old children use their developing understanding of context and grammatical cues to help them predict hidden words in a text. Simple turtle graphics using a freely available online application provides a mathematical...
BBC's new revision game Questionaut , by Amanita Design , attempts to combine video games with sats questions. The goal of Questionaut is to track down your friend's hat, but your balloon can't reach that high until you answer enough questions...
Update: Penpals have now been found for this school. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Do you have a class who would like to exchange letters/emails with a school in Italy? My name's...
The Reading is Fundamental website has lots of great flash songs and stories for children to interact with. One of my favourites is Jungle Eyes . http://www.rif.org/readingplanet/content/read_aloud_stories.mspx
If you are interested in Digital storytelling or want to learn more about it then 50 Web 2.0 Ways to Tell a Story will give you all the information you will need. The index page describes the three way process of outlining a story idea , finding some...
There are some new resources available from the KentNGfL games page, (they are very much open to change so please do suggest improvements): Phase2 Sound Buttons - supports Letters and Sounds . Choose only the sets you are teaching to make new words. Phase...
PacWriter is a free educational arcade-style typing game similar to the classic Pacman game. It is fun and addictive. Your character, either Mr. Pacwri or Ms. Pacwri, is chased by dangerous ghosts. Whenever you meet an obstacle, you quickly type the letter...
Dull Literacy and History lessons! Why not bring in some film clips to your lesson. Screenonline provides short video clips of films. These can only be viewed in school through the regional broadband connection (KCN)- for Kent schools). Be aware to check...
There are some new additions to the Kent NGfL games page: Bear Builder: If your topic is 'Toys' or 'Bears' you might like to try designing your own bear on screen. Then write some sentences using the word bank. You can play back your sentences to hear...
http://www.filmstreet.co.uk/ FilmStreet is a partnership between CBBC, British Film Institute and other publicly-funded organisations. It contains resources to support the use of media in the renewed Literacy Framework. The site aims to promote three...
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