Live poetry production
After recapping our OARSIM acronym, the class are exploring and writing poetry with Concrete Poetry lets you choose or draw a picture on the screen, then drag and drop the words to fill in it that the tool gives you. …
Teaching
Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
Roaring success
Word Tamer is an interactive flash-based website where you “tame words and train stories.” It is quite literally a carnival of literary adventures. The site helps students create and develop new writing possibilities along the usual lines but with added verve …
Two free tools
Two free tools. If you use and love the ‘5 minute planner,’ keep an eye out for the 5 period, 5 minute (or should that now read 25 minute day planner) planner and follow @dandesignthink while you are at it. Dan’s a very …
Drive to the finish line #2
Hard Facts An afternoon crunching numbers on the Office for National Statistics gives you the hard facts of the value of GCSEs qualifications. Based on hourly pay differences, year differences and an inflated 50 year work life, examples were contextualised and …
Prof Bill Lucas #TLAB13
Young people are actors in their own drama. Afternoon all, here for Proj Bill Lucas, which starts with a fantastic card trick, a word puzzle and a visual puzzle that reveals that we are wired to respond with pre-learnt responses. The …
David Didau doesn’t do…
I feel that the saturation of poetry teaching has left its mark – my next tattoo will most like be ‘OARSIM’ – onomatopoeia, alliteration, rhyme and rhythm, simile, imagery and metaphor. Hence David Didau, doesn’t do… dull. David doesn’t do ‘activities’ …
#TLAB13 Keynote
After a warm welcome and very pleasant evening with the veritable Dr Nick Dennis at Berkenstand School – @zoeross19 and we have both decided we need a very strong coffee to kick start, what is hoping to be, a fantastic day …
The boy who harnessed the wind, again
Back in Sept 09 I wrote about a fantastic learning,engineering and personal endeavour achievement. The story of William Kamkwamba. I know his story had a profound impact on a wide and diverse community of educators, politicians, engineers, ecologists, agriculturists and more. …