What a lovely way to start a huge year for us: a joyous visit to Hounslow Heath Junior School, Middlesex. Thank you to Ritu Aulakh (Headteacher), and her colleagues for a sunny, laughter filled, beginning of the new year. These people really know how to smile, to laugh, and to rise to challenges. Well done [...]

A joyous summer full of variety. And most of it, as we attempt to do each year, was analogue. A key feature, when we’ve been at home, has been an area we made and which we call “The Sanctuary”. It is a corner that captures the sunlight, at certain times of the day, in an [...]

Savio Salesian College (formerly known as Savio Catholic High School or Savio High School) is a Roman Catholic secondary school in Bootle, Merseyside, England. The school is run by priests and was successful, in early 2006, to secure a bid for specialist Business & Enterprise status. The school has about 820 pupils on roll. The [...]

I find Cooliris increasingly useful when searching big folders of photographs or images. Cooliris is a browser plug-in that revolutionizes how you find, view, and share photos and videos. Whether you’re browsing the Web, your desktop, or folders of media, Cooliris presents that media on an infinite “3D wall” that lets you enjoy content, without [...]

Doodle Avatar Maker I made the doodle (to the left) with this one. Easy to master. At the moment there is no way to change the skin colour. Simpsons Avatar Creator Doh! Change yourself in to one of the yellow bods with this one. (Follow the link at the top of the page). Lego Minifig [...]

Here is a powerful tool, when carrying out a geography project of any kind: GeoPlanet Explorer. Here you can explore the geographical information provided by Yahoo in the GeoPlanet API and data set. Simply enter a location in the form and submit it to get detailed information about the place you are looking for – [...]

There are lots of useful tools for the budding musician at Drumbot.com. The best little app is the DrumBot itself: An online drum machine for those who can’t find a real drummer to jam with! It has different loop sets, that can get you started with your sequencing of drum sounds, at great pace, with [...]

Words are powerful. Combine words with music and you can really be flying. Words crackle and fizz when you enhance them with some appropriate atmospheric music or art. As part of our visit to Parklands Primary school in Northampton, we enjoyed the opportunity to experiment with the effect that a soundtrack can have, as an [...]

Over the last few events, we have been investigating LOTS of creative ways of developing non-linear experiences. Twine is another way to create branching texts. It is slightly less graphic than some, and perhaps more suited to older students, but well worth exploring as it can motivate and inspire some, often reluctant, writers to explore [...]

Today, we had the pleasure of spending the day with the staff at Parklands Primary, Northampton. Also joining us were their neighbouring colleagues from Sunnyside Primary and Woodvale Primary.

During our Leeds ICT To Inspire, Wii Project, it was a great pleasure to meet up with Phil Robertson, teacher from Otley All Saints CE Primary School. Phil was involved in our initial Leeds training, and the day of lessons, using Myst and many, many other techniques, to motivate and inspire writers of all abilities. [...]

O.K. So you have done your run, or been on that school trip, and you have seen how far you travelled and at what pace, AND even the heights you scaled, using RunKeeper. Now. How about adding some more detail to your route record. There are many “make your own map” sites, (esp. GoogleMap making [...]