Archive | August, 2010

Science without the Mess

11 Aug

        floatsink

Science is one of the newer subjects on the primary school curriculum. As a former science graduate, it surprises me that it was only around ten years ago that it became a subject in primary schools in its own right. Ten years on, I don’t believe we’re doing enough of it. It is widely recognised | Read on…

Why Buying an IWB is now like Buying a Car

8 Aug

        carsales

According to Henry Ford, back in 1909,  if you wanted to buy a car, you could have it in any colour as long as it was black.  In the early days of motoring, one had very little choice if they wanted to buy a car as there weren’t that many models available.  Nowadays there are | Read on…

Grammar, Spellings and Fairy Tales on an Interactive Whiteboard

6 Aug

        grammariboard

As we showed in the last article, the TES iBoard is probably one of the best resources any teacher could ever have if they were teaching an infant class. However, the TES iBoard covers the full curriculum for KS1 in the UK, the equivalent of the Junior cycle at primary level here. As the title | Read on…

Review: Panasonic Panaboard

4 Aug

        panaboard

In January this year, I headed over to London to BETT for my first time to see what the world of educational technology offered. Little did I know that the world of educational technology is vast. Very vast. In fact, it’s so vast that there was no way to visit even a tenth of all | Read on…

How I teach with an IWB

1 Aug

        granitemicroscope

How I plan a lesson with an IWB So your principal has bought everyone in the school interactive whiteboards. After wondering where the money came from – how many cakes were sold at the last cake sale? – you’re standing in front of something not too dissimilar to your previous whiteboard, except this one has wires coming out of | Read on…