Disasters… belonging to Christchurch N.Z. means you know a little bit about earthquakes. Since September 4th 2010, at the time of writing we have had 10379 earthquakes, and as I wrote this another (3.9M and 5km deep) shook the house.. the biggest in a while. ( See http://www.christchurchquakemap.co.nz/ for details.). So we decided to look into disasters in our school a little more. Click on the image above for the banner for our unit or here (to download get a free registration here). Our sister site in2edu.com has a rich inquiry topic based on this here.

Tags: I.C.T, inquiry, topic, resources, learning

Our latest banner to go with our new advertising unit based at in2edu.com. Check out the banner above and if you want some free teaching resources and ideas across the curriculum check out the super thematic theme on the “Advertising” here .Register here for your free download..

Tags: I.C.T, banners, printables, english, advertising, media, themes, classroom, display, resources, free

Two new posters online. Had fun making.

Tags: I.C.T, posters, printables, thinking, free, debono, 6hats, metacognition, resources

Check out this poster for some nice simple tips for your pupils as they write a blog entry.

Tags: tips, software, I.C.T, web, writing, resources, posters, blog, cyber-citizenship

New banners posted for Scratch workshop celebrations and awards, and thinking and learning banners for display:

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Learning@School 2010 is a great conference held every year in Rotorua NZ. This year I am hosting a workshop entitled “3 in 1” which is to give an overview of using Keynote, Pages and Scratch in the topic called, “Flight”
To access these files you need to register with the site first here.
These are the files that we used:
Files as handed out at conference: 274 MB Zipped (formats are PDF, Keynote, Scratch, Pages). Pages and Keynote are Apple only programs.
Other Files
ICT Skills Ladders PDF to help you scaffold skills in programs (ICT Crew or Tech Angel Crew) and track them with a visual rubric.

Tags: school, scratch, I.C.T, apple, training, keynote