ICT Goodies

It's hard to keep track of your timetable, class lists, class markbook, detention lists, parents evening appointments etc. What's more, it's a pain to have to carry it around with you.

This electronic teachers' planner combines all of these useful features in one Excel document that can be easily and effortlessly transported on USB memory drive.

An A5 self assessment sheet which can be used during a lesson plenary. This encourages students to think about what they have learned during the lesson and recall important points and key words as well as indicating whether they understood using smiley faces.

This can be displayed as a poster around the classroom. Tasks can then be classified as a 'red', 'amber', or 'green' activity - indicating what level of noise is permitted.

A great activity for any KS3 class / lunch time / after school club.

Students can make their own virtual steady hand game just using Microsoft PowerPoint. Instructions and an example game attached.

This is an introduction to ICT to be used on the very first lesson with Y7. It sets out the teacher's expectations and classroom rules and then gets students logging on and changing their passwords.

This resource is ideal for meeting new classes either on a transfer day, or on the first day of a new term. Particularly useful for year 6 moving into year 7. A fairly simple passport template in which students fill in basic details such as date of birth, as well as aspirations and targets for the forthcoming academic year.

Also has a small space to include / stick in a photograph.

The PLTS: team worker, effective participator, creative thinker, self manager, reflective learner, independent enquirer in 'student speak' and geared towards ICT.

These can be printed, laminated and put up in the classroom.

Based on this PLTS for Design Technology resource

read more

Techniques to find out what students are learning (during the lesson) and what they have learned (after the lesson when planning the next lesson). Strategies include ABCDE cards, basketball discussions, hinge questioning, class votes, no hands up, mini white boards, carousels and more.

Some fantastic photos taken during the opening weekend of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. These photos could be used by students when designing tickets, posters, shirts, brochures, PowerPoints etc.

Source: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/opening_weekend_-_2010_world_c....

A Microsoft Access database of the countries taking part in the 2010 World Cup. The database includes the country name, three letter country code, capital city and currency used.

You can ask students to create queries to search for all countries that use the Euro for example or create a report and sort in alphabetical order.

ICT Goodies has been featured on the popular Teaching News website created by Mark Warner. Teaching News aims to share the latest news, links and teaching ideas, in order to support teachers around the world.

Read the story here: http://www.teachingnews.co.uk/2010/06/ict-goodies/

A cross curricular activity looking at racism in football. This PowerPoint contains information, quotes and points for discussion before students complete ICT related tasks including writing a letter to the football authorities about racism and designing a racism awareness poster for the World Cup 2010.

Original resource by Claire Davis

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialise correctly.

Click here to view Flash content.

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialise correctly.

Click here to view Flash content.

You are missing some Flash content that should appear here! Perhaps your browser cannot display it, or maybe it did not initialise correctly.

Click here to view Flash content.

China is ramping up efforts to become the world's supercomputing superpower.

Read the full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10181725.stm

Lists of Britons who infringe copyright are to be drawn up by the UK's biggest ISPs, under proposals from the regulator Ofcom.

Read the full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/10183820.stm

A great spreadsheet with all the groups for the 2010 World Cup. Students can change the fonts and colours, enter the formulas to work out the points total and goal difference and try to hyperlink the country's flags to the relevant Wikipedia articles.

Mission Maker is an interactive control challange created by Classroom Multimedia. Click below to try it out.

read more