by admin | May 24, 2012 | Technology
Mentimeter is a website used for polling your pupils or for getting feedback from them. I found out about this website from Richard Byrne of the Free Tech 4 Teachers website. It’s a really easy audience response website and I’ve used this site with my 1st...
by admin | Apr 5, 2012 | Apps
The Adobe Photoshop App is a handy little app for manipulating photos and creating some special effects. However, my class used this app when we were doing a unit of work on Andy Warhol and Pop Art. You can import a photo from your camera roll and using the special...
by admin | Apr 2, 2012 | Apps
Your pupils can get creative and paint abstract paintings in the style of the great artist Jackson Pollock using this app . Use your finger to apply the paint and turn your iPod to make the paint drip. You can choose from a range of individual colours or from colour...
by admin | Mar 26, 2012 | Apps, Technology
Check out this article I wrote on Apps to Support Literacy in the Classroom for the March 2012 edition of InTouch, the INTO magazine for primary school teachers. The article mentions six different apps to support different aspects of literacy: Rory’s Story Cubes...
by admin | Mar 24, 2012 | Technology
I’ve written some other posts on this site about how we are experimenting using QR Codes in the classroom (Our School Community QR Codes, Animal Homes QR Codes, QR Codes in the Classroom). This week I decided to try to integrate our weekly spelling test for my...
