Below you'll find a list of all posts from 2015
I’m currently working with year 6 children for a morning each week to help to improve their writing through their use of new technology. Each class has its own blog and each child has their own login, which they can use to post writing and to comment on others’ work. I’ll write in more detail about that in a future …
I was introduced to Autodesk Sketchbook Express the other day by David Hendry from Lex Learn. David has an interest in all things to do with computing and education but is also a local artist specialising in iPad painting. David uses the Dorset landscape as his inspiration and his excellent work can be viewed at www.dorseteyepad.com. I’ve played with a …
I’m still working with Year 5, investigating how to use Scratch for simple maths problem solving and games. Here’s a simple game that’s good for making practical use of boolean operators, ‘random’ number generator, ‘repeat until’ loops and variables… It works like this…
I’m working with Year 5 at the moment, thinking about how to get Scratch to do maths. The progression has been something like this… 1) Get sprite to say the answer to 3*2 etc 2) Get sprite to ask for something to multiply by 2. Eg ‘say *2’ 3) Set first answer to a variable called ‘firstnumber’ and second answer …
I’m currently working with year 6 children for one morning a week to enhance their English and maths learning through ICT. In maths this week we’re revising coordinates and how shapes can be translated. We came up with some ideas about how we could write a program to plot co-ordinates to make a polygon then translate it to a new …
This is one of those things which can be really useful when working in a school – particularly if you can only print onto A4 or A3. I usually use good old Textease, to be honest, which makes the process extremely simple but, for those who use Microsoft Publisher, I’ve produced a little crib sheet… Download as PDF