I LOVE Rory’s Story Cubes they have so much potential for the classroom to develop a wealth of literacy skills. There are physical versions of…
Category: Classroom
Minecraft: Mum have you convinced your students that this is a great game for the classroom?
Posted in Classroom, Creating, and Research and Readings
I have two boys, 13 and 10 who have been playing minecraft for a few years now. I must admit that I am not an…
23 Augmented Reality Apps for Education
Posted in Classroom, General Classroom Apps, General Teacher Apps, iPads and Apps, and Literacy Apps
AR: Augmented Reality is a interactive way to engage and scaffold learning tasks in the classroom. Augmented reality requires a trigger point to produce another…
Kahoot: create your own quiz games.
Posted in Classroom, Consuming, Creating, General, Humanities/ Topics, and Literacy
So we all know Socrative, which is an excellent tool for the classroom. For those of you who have not seen the new quiz tool Kahoot.…
Australian Virtual Census
Posted in Classroom, Geography, History, Humanities Topics, and Humanities/ Topics
The Australian Bureau of statistics has created this virtual resource on Australia using the data gained from the census. This tool personalises the Australian population…
Turn your quiz into a arcade game: Mitchell
Posted in Classroom, Creating, General, History, Humanities/ Topics, and Teacher Resources
Previously I have posted about class tools which can turn any quiz into games. Progressing on form last weeks scratch game, Mitchell created this game…
Scratch: Mitchell’s Post
Posted in Classroom, Creating, General, Literacy, Problem Solving, Teacher Resources, and Web 2.0 tools
Today’s post has been written by my son Mitchell, who discovered scratch and then created his own game. Hi Everyone, My name is Mitchell, for my…
Infographic: Apps for teaching space
Posted in Classroom, Humanities Topics, infographics, iPads and Apps, and Space
Hi Everyone, I recently had someone ask if I knew of any apps they could use in their classroom for the topic space. I have…
Wideo: Make online animated videos
Posted in Classroom, General, History, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Maths, Teacher Resources, and Web 2.0 tools
Hi everyone, I was looking this morning and found this web based animated video creation site. I have been playing with the tool and created…
Creating multimodal texts
Posted in Classroom, General Classroom Apps, General Teacher Apps, infographics, iPads and Apps, Literacy Apps, Uncategorized, and Writing Apps
Last week I wrote about the importance of balance between traditional and multimodal texts. This weeks post continues this discussion but focuses on the importance…
Infographic: 15C skills and attributes of 21st century learning
Posted in Classroom, General, and infographics
Whilst writing a post on multimodal texts (which will be posted soon), I slightly digressed and started thinking about 21st century skills. In the info-graphic…
Traditional and Multimodal Versions of Books: Isn’t it all about balance?
Posted in Classroom, Comprehension, iPads and Apps, Literacy, Reading, and Reading apps
Hi everyone, I am intrigued by the use of traditional and multimodal texts in literacy classrooms. These texts are electronic books that incorporate additional features…
Easter
Posted in Celebrations, Classroom, and Easter
Hi everyone, I have previously blogged about Easter websites and apps particularly in terms of games and activities. However I have not blogged about Easter…
Frolyc: create activities for the iPad
Posted in Classroom, General Classroom Apps, General Teacher Apps, and iPads and Apps
Today as I looking around the web, I stumbled across Frolyc. This is a FREE web based program where you can search for educational content…
Finally a word cloud app for the iPad.
Posted in Classroom, General Classroom Apps, iPads and Apps, Literacy Apps, and Uncategorized
I am so excited !! I have previously blogged about word cloud tools which can be found on the internet. Tools such as Wordle and…