How much space is in an atom and why is nothing actually “solid”?
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Free Resources, Further & Higher Education, Inspirational ideas and people, Professional Development and Training, Secondary Education, Theory Into Practice | Comments (0) »Teacher's domain is a great place to go for resources. You can sign up for free in order to access hundreds of very high multimedia clips and collections covering Science, Engineering and Maths, etc. It is biased to ...
Is High School Science too Safe?
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Further & Higher Education, Gautam Saha, Secondary Education | Comment (1) »As I reflect on my 5 years of teaching Chemistry in public high schools in this country, I cannot forget the common theme of the first raw questions students ask me as they come to class the first day of ...
Promethean flipcharts can be found in pan-European learning object repository
Monday, June 9th, 2008 Posted in Assessment and Learning, Classroom Ideas, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Further & Higher Education, Inspirational ideas and people, Mark Robinson, Pedagogy, Personalised Learning, Policy and Funding, Research and Evidence, Secondary Education, Theory Into Practice, Web 2.0 | Comments (0) »The European schoolnet have just launched a new portal for educators -the MELT Learning Resource Exchange (LRE) portal for schools. You can find open educational resources and assets from many different countries and providers, including 16 Ministries of Education and Promethean, ...
Online Video - Getting better?
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in Classroom Ideas, Early Years and Primary, Further & Higher Education, Mark Robinson, Secondary Education, Web 2.0 | Comments (0) »Wouldn't it be nice to have James Blunt help with your geometry lessons? Well now he can.... and your class can sing along too. http://www.totlol.com/watch/o2Z6tDSb6c8/James-Blunt-on-Sesame-Street/0/ TOTLOL is basically a moderated version of YouTube that has just started up. Moderators select videos that ...
An easy and effective teaching method that raises standards
Friday, April 25th, 2008 Posted in Activote, Assessment and Learning, Classroom Ideas, Early Years and Primary, Expression, Further & Higher Education, Inspirational ideas and people, Mark Robinson, Professional Development and Training, Research and Evidence, Secondary Education, Theory Into Practice | Comments (5) »Dr. Eric Mazur, from Harvard has developed and refined the concept of Peer Instruction - a straightforward method for teaching classes interactively. The method has developed a large following, both nationally and internationally, and research indicates the very positive impact ...
One of the most shared videos on Google Video? - You may be surprised and inspired.
Saturday, April 19th, 2008 Posted in Creativity in the classroom, Further & Higher Education, Game Based Learning, Inspirational ideas and people, Mark Robinson | Comment (1) »YouTube and Google Video may get bad press… and it would be easy to imagine that the most shared videos would comprise of facile, entertainment of the lowest order.... skateboarding dogs and the ilk In fact an inspirational teacher literally giving ...
New research looks at students’ ability to process multiple types of information
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in Assessment and Learning, Creativity in the classroom, Early Years and Primary, Further & Higher Education, Mark Robinson, Pedagogy, Personalised Learning, Professional Development and Training, Promethean Products, Research and Evidence, Secondary Education, Theory Into Practice | Comments (0) »Some things just get your attention - and this one got mine! It rang so many bells for me as a teacher who has tried to tackle the challenge of harnessing new technology effectively. Most Activclassroom users would not be surprised ...
Interesting use of Activboard, Activslate and Activote in HE Art and Design
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 Posted in Assessment and Learning, Classroom Ideas, Further & Higher Education, Game Based Learning, Mark Robinson, Promethean Products, Web 2.0 | Comment (1) »Leeds College or Art and Design (where Damian Hirst first threw a dead sheep off the roof in the name of Art!) has taken on Activclassroom technology and found a range of very interesting ways of using it in a ...
Open University - LearningSpace… HE on demand!
Saturday, July 7th, 2007 Posted in Further & Higher Education, Professional Development and Training | Comments (0) »Fancy a brush up on your teacher training? Open University might have the ideal solution. There are 31 units under Education alone covering everything from teaching ideas (visualisation in Maths example) to working with colleagues. Broken down into short chunks - ...
Museums go virtual…
Friday, July 6th, 2007 Posted in Further & Higher Education, Mark Robinson, Personalised Learning, Web 2.0 | Comments (0) »The Exploratorium - a popular museum with a renowned web presence, is moving into the world of Second Life. Forget old fashioned web pages and images banks of artefacts - this is how kids will explore museums in the future ...
