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| Box of Tricks» Technology and Education Updated : Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:42:32 +0000 MFL Show and Tell at Nottingham High School Inspired by Ewan McIntosh and his by-teachers-for-teachers TeachMeet unconferences, Joe Dale set the ball rolling with first MFL Show and Tell session to accompany his successful series of Isle of Wight conferences at Nodehill Middle School. Last year, James Padvis took the baton from Joe and organised a wonderful event at Foxford School and Community Arts College, Conventry. This time [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:16:54 +0000 From reluctant learners to creative film makers Earlier this year, my Year 9 class and I embarked on a project that aimed to turn a really boring topic – classroom vocabulary – into something a little more memorable: the making of a short film. What you need : A camera Basic film editing software A classroom full of stars in the making [...] Publ.Date : Sat, 27 Mar 2010 17:47:35 +0000 Five great WordPress templates for student-run blogs SimonSays takes a break from taking an wry and often irreverent look at the state of education in his regular haunt over at un.teachable.net to write a guest post here at Box of Tricks introducing us to some of WordPress’ most useful magazine style themes, also known as templates, that can be used for classroom blogging. [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:18:51 +0000 Developing the home-school relationship using digital technologies The following is an extract from the recently published handbook entitled Developing the home-school relationship using digital technologies written by Futurelab‘s education technology senior researcher Lyndsay Grant, looking into the use of web applications by the our Modern Languages Department at Nottingham High School. Nottingham High School is an independent boys’ school for ages 7-18. In [...] Publ.Date : Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:07:26 +0000 Hard to Teach – Secondary Modern Foreign Languages Using ICT Earlier this year, a camera crew from Teachers TV and the sadly soon to be defunct Becta came to Nottingham High School to film my classes in Years 9, 10 and 11 using web applications to help them practise their spoken foreign language skills. The result was premiered today on the Teachers TV website and [...] Publ.Date : Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:44:56 +0000 Safe animations with Domo Nation Certain web applications allow students to be creative and have fun while learning a foreign language. It is of paramount importance to educators that these applications offer a safe and suitable environment in which students can learn without fear of being exposed to unsuitable content. Ever since I discovered Go!Animate, online animations have formed an [...] Publ.Date : Sun, 16 May 2010 15:37:00 +0000 MFL Show and Tell – CPD by teachers for teachers Last Saturday 10th July saw the first Modern Foreign Languages Show and Tell event at Nottingham High School, following a series of very successful Show and Tell sessions based on the inspired -and inspiring- TeachMeet model. The event attracted many language teachers and educators from all over the country who came to Nottingham to share good practice [...] Publ.Date : Tue, 13 Jul 2010 19:04:13 +0000 How do teachers use Twitter? Last Saturday I was fortunate enough to find myself leading a session at the Macmillan Secondary Teacher’s Day event in Barcelona, Spain. My session was entitled Using ICT to enhance teaching and Learning and in it I used real-life classroom practice to demonstrate how the effective use of ICT can raise achievement by increasing both motivation and [...] Publ.Date : Tue, 27 Apr 2010 18:59:19 +0000 Web applications in History Kerry Turner has produced this fantastic 7 minute video for the School’s History Project TeachMeet. In it she reflects on the use of web applications and ICT tools in her History lessons this year. Kerry happens to be a colleague at Nottingham High School – she’s a History Teacher as well as Head of ICT – and [...] Publ.Date : Mon, 05 Jul 2010 20:34:47 +0000 Can you spot the difference? Picture based activities using Photoshop’s new features Photoshop is a very powerful image editing and creation tool, but I had always felt any half decent editing was beyond me, never mind the indistinguishable-from-magic results some people seem to be able to come up with. Masking, burning, dodging and lassoing sounded – and still do – like words taken right out of the [...] Publ.Date : Mon, 30 Aug 2010 17:40:50 +0000 |
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