Friday, March 12th, 2010

OECD Factbook eXplorer

July 3, 2009 by Mark  
Filed under Recent News, School, learning, web tools

This is probably more up Richards alley but I can’t help thinking  how much more interesting Geography A level might have been with resources like this.  Check out the video on the BBC website and visit http://stats.oecd.org/oecdfactbook/.

Unlock Moodle Potential

June 17, 2009 by Mark  
Filed under Recent News, howto, moodle, video

One of the effects of the latest flu pandemic is that a school can be shut down at anytime.  Our particular school policy states that we will provide materials online while students are away so that they may continue with their studies.  Unfortunately in a practical based subject that is a little difficult and rather [...]

AIR CON, Global Climate Change

May 7, 2009 by Richard van Dijk  
Filed under School, learning

I just popped into the local post shop today and skimmed through Ian Wishart’s AIR CON. Since I am studying Climate change with my Year 10 class this seemed interesting. It is a look at the other side of the debate on climate change and since I share clips from An Inconvenient Truth it does [...]

eChalk: Teaching resources for interactive whiteboards and data projectors

March 22, 2009 by Richard van Dijk  
Filed under games, iwb, websites

While the KKC and MMC Maths and Science classes have been indulging in echalk resources for some time now, they have recently released resources on History. With particular interest to me were the tudor and stuart resources for yr 13 History and as we already have a license I can get straight into it. So [...]