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    Parents Understanding Technology

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    Parents are becoming increasingly aware of the high level ICT skills that schools are adopting to reflect the modern world. These new learning environments are now a far cry from the blackboard days that most parents remember as being the main display...
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    And Just When You Thought You Were Getting the Hang of It...

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    OK.. Its late on Friday - and I feel like writing a Geek post! Most people may have heard of Second Life - but many may not have experienced it. (Yes - most of the stories are true!) - but it got many educators thinking "is there a place for virtual...
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    Technology is SUPA

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    Scottish Universities Physics Alliance The Graduate School delivers training in a number of ways; via specialist courses relating to the SUPA -identified priority research themes via Summer Schools and Advanced Workshops via Distance learning material...
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    Exam Questions

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    As a teacher I often found students were reluctant to just work through an examination paper prior to an exam, even though the experience of working on a past paper was invaluable. For my Year 9 students to work on a SATs paper on a Friday afternoon for...
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    Manga & the Bard

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    Some of you may remember the Planet feature we did a few months ago about using Manga Shakespeare resources to teach Shakespeare in the classroom; a modern take on the traditional that teenagers can really empathise with. The Planet team worked with Manga...
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    Denby School Wins Hi-Tech Kit

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    A primary school in Denby has won a set of hi-tech learning equipment to boost its pupils' education. Street Lane Primary won a competition and received an 'activote kit' that enables children to interact with a whiteboard during the course...
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    Color and Learning in the ActivClassroom

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    Here in the northeast U.S. we are enjoying the beautiful colors of the changing leaves. Thousands of people make a special pilgrimage for ‘leaf peeping’ in Vermont, Maine and New Hampshire. As I have been enjoying the changing season and the...
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    Just What Is An ActivClassroom?

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    I read a lot of stuff on the web and listen in on a lot of conversations about interactive whiteboards and all that jazz. Sometimes I’m all pumped up and sometimes, I get a little deflated. So I’ve been thinking lately, just what IS an ActivClassroom...
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    Keep Your Audience Engaged- Find Your Purple Cow

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    I recently finished a great book called Purple Cow , by Seth Godin. The thing is, this wasn't a book about education, it was a book about marketing. Why is marketing relevant to education? Because marketers spend billions of dollars every year to...
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    The Secret of Actions

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    . The list of "Actions" in the "Action Browser" within ActivInspire is pretty extensive. If you are like me, you use a few actions over and over, but never really explore many of the other actions. By the way, my favorite is "Hidden"...
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