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A Computer Per Student Leads to Higher Performance

Students equipped with their own laptop demonstrate higher achievement and increased engagement, according to the findings of studies published in the Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment. All of the studies found that students in the 1:1 settings outperformed their traditional classroom peers...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 01-22-2010
Premiership Words

The Word Tree is one of my favourite Kent ICT games for FS/KS1 use on the IWB. We wanted to make a version more suitable for KS2. So there's a new game called Premiership Words . It allows to enter and store jazzy words for display on your IWB. The resource is football themed. You choose your two...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 06-23-2009
Exploring advertisements (persuasive writing)

Teachers looking at persuasive writing within a Literacy lesson might want to use an advert from http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/series/advertisingvideos Some are unsuitable for classroom use so please do check them in advance. My personal favourite is this one: www.guardian.co.uk/media/video/2009/jan...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 06-22-2009
Picture the Music Create

Several schools have already tried out an early version of Picture the Music software to rapidly and easily create audio/visual resources for generating thinking and creative writing. The new Create version now allows importation of your own pictures and music very easily, as well as chance to record...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 04-23-2009
Interested in a collaborative writing competition for your classes?

I was contacted by a colleague who enquired if anyone was interested in the collaborative writing competition being run by Think Quest Details can be found here: http://thinkquest.org/competition/narrative/index.html but the ideas are noted below Create rich content about an educational topic that interests...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 03-14-2009
Create a Superhero

With thanks to Mark Warner for suggesting the following website: The Hero Factory Pupils will have fun creating their own Superhero. Their creations can be downloaded as a jpeg (image file) or printed. http://www.cpbintegrated.com/theherofactory/ Mandy

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 02-12-2009
2Create A Story - publishing online

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 they had finished they saved their work and ticked...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 12-10-2008
Metal Detectors

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 on shells and ordering numbers to 20. Watch out for...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 10-27-2008
Website of the Week - Animated Storytelling

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 wild, by adding brears, crocodiles, dinosaurs and...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 10-12-2008
Changes to Games pages

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 of the game icons to be visible on the same screen...

Posted to Kent ICT Blog (Weblog) by kent-teachers on 09-03-2008

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