As a part of the restructuring of KCC web resources the KentNGfL web site will be moving. The majority of the content will stay the same. The web site address will be different. If you have links to any of the resources on your web site or have the KentNGfL...(read more)

A review of studies of online learning has suggests: Learners who took all or part of their class online perform better than just face-to-face Combining face-to-face and online is more effective than purely online or face-to-face Learners online spent...(read more)

Our congratulations to Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre, Tenterden (joint runner up). Described by judges as a 'cracking school' with an 'excellent vision of where it wants to go with technology', Homewood has raised standards through...(read more)

Louise Thomas (St Ethelbert's Ramsgate) suggested that we should have a number square that demonstrated decimal numbers. It also supports negative numbers. Features includes: Number range: -15 000 to 15 000 Negative numbers Decimal numbers Hide one...(read more)

View the following places in 360 degree interactive panoramas: The Roman Colosseum Italy The Great Wall. China Petra Jordan - the forgotten City Taj Mahal, India Machu Picchu, Peru Christ Redeemer, Rio de Janeiro Brazil Chichén Itzá, Mexico http://www...(read more)

This week we have decided to take a break from chosing just one website, to instead featuring a few classroom and teacher blogs popping up all over the web. Many schools are using blogs as an easy way to raise the profile of classroom learning and/or...(read more)

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...(read more)

The schedule for Teachers TV this week is focussing on child safety and in particular there are two programmes on esafety. Both have been shown before and can be downloaded from the website. See http://www.teachers.tv/node/34948 Heidi...(read more)

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...(read more)

Kent teacher Mark Warner's collaborative 'Ideas to Inspire' website continues to grow with the help of teachers all round the world. The latest collaborative collection is over 35 inspirational Youtube videos ideal for using with your class...(read more)

Welcome to the Web www.w2tw.co.uk " Welcome to the Web ", created by Kent teacher Mark Warner, is an highly praised interactive set of on-line resources which teach children (an adults) about different aspects of the Internet. The latest update...(read more)

Adding a webcam to a birdbox is becoming increasingly popular in schools. Last Sunday the Kestrel chicks hatch at Povey Farm. Now is a great time to watch them being fed and growing. http://www.lea.derbyshire.sch.uk/birdcam/kestrelcam/index.html Very...(read more)

Available on the Next Generation Learning website, these materials seek to engage parents in supporting their children at home http://www.nextgenerationlearning.org.uk/Online-resources-for-parents/...(read more)

Tony Cassidy has created a fantastic powerpoint slide with multiple live streaming webcams. He has an example on his blog as well as instructions for making your own. 

Image your students faces when they walk into the classroom to see this on the interactive whiteboard! Each picture is live. You can actually see people and traffic moving!

 

This resource has lots of uses including:

• comparing weather around the world
• life in other countries eg Egypt 
• day and night around the world 

Visit Tony's blog to download the powerpoint and instructions.  pilotgcseradicalgeography.co.uk

We would be interested to know what you thought of Tony's great idea, so please leave a comment below and tell us how you used or will use this resource.

Mandy:)

How good are you at parking a car?

http://www.107.peugeot.co.uk/peugeot.swf

Mandy:)

What are your top ICT tips?

My favourite include:

Using the  F11 key when viewing webpage on the interactive whiteboard. It throws back all the navigation buttons and address bar so that you maximise the view of the webpage.

Using the Print Screen key "PrtSc" on the top right of a keyboard. It captures the screen you are working on. Useful for capturing webpages or a document which has frozen.

How to use the Print Screen key "PrtSc"
Press the key and then go into your IWB software, Textease, Word, PowerPoint ... and click Paste to drop the screen captured image. 

Mandy:)

www.bekonscot.com/virtual_village/ is great fun, and a welcome alternative to MyWorld Make a Town. It fits into the Modelling (Year 1) and Simulation (Year 3) units, and possibly has some relevance in Geography! Click a building or feature, then click...(read more)

Learning with ICT in a typical UK primary school consists of an ICT suite with on average 15 PCs. Katy Potts (Primary Manager ICT, Cambridge Education) suggests schools need to make a leap of faith away from the traditional ICT suite. To read the full...(read more)

Sound effects www.soungle.com Soungle is a free site, developed by Southern Codes, for finding all kind of sound FX and musical instruments samples from their mega online library. As different from most of similar sites, Soungle is NOT a Web search engine...(read more)

The Kent Dig IT project is an exciting opportunity for Key Stage 2 pupils to investigate and write about the people and events associated with some of Kent's most famous historical sites. Schools on the project have chosen to take part in an activity...(read more)