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"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 2008 is the official launch of Kent's writing project using the computer game Myst, when we will...
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 2009 to kick start a whole unit on using Myst to develop Literacy and ICT skills. Tim will be visiting...
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...
Here's a nice Christmas session for any KS1 / 2 class. First we watched a video about a Santa Claus tree decoration, (shown to me by Jane at Stone St Mary Primary School, thank you!! ). Then we came up with our own versions using 2Create A Story. The...
Test your vocabulary and donate rice to the hungry simultaneously. For every word you get right, sponsors donate 10 grains of rice; you can see the rice piling up right next to the quiz. The words start off somewhat easy, and the more you get right, the...
I've added a new resource to the Kent NGfL games page. It allows you to model a jacket for your Beebot on screen and then print it out. Much like you can for the Pixie. http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/beebotShell_v2.html The only tricky part is that...
There are a growing number of websites available on the internet providing good opportunities for reading and literature. Lit2Go is a free online collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audiobook) format. You can: Download the files to your Mp3 player...
The BBC have launched a new version of their popular revision zones. Bitesize Games is aimed at key stage one and covers both Literacy and Numeracy. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ks1bitesize/numeracy/ Visit our main website at www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/
NGfL CYMRU have created a fantastic new resource called Literacy Builder with many interactive activities to support all areas of the curriculum from Eary Years to Year 6. Many of the activities are exe files. Save the files to your computer and then...
Hot Potatoes is an online “lesson construction” software suite that allows you to create Web-based interactive activities. It includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching...
This is a fun site "where children (and adults) can create their own comic strips. Choose from 10 fun characters with different moods -- happy, sad, angry, worried – and write words and thought balloons to make characters talk and think. There also are...
Little Bear & Sophie Bear are travelling teddies who live with Mrs Keen, an Essex based Early Years teacher. Children can read a diary of the bears exciting adventures. Adults will find teaching resources, recommended books for early years children...
For everyone who attended the Textease in Literacy training today, here is the video of The Piano man http://tbarrett.edublogs.org/2007/05/31/the-piano-by-aidan-gibbons/ During the session delegates were shown how screenshots of the video can be copied...
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