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 Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: April 5th, 2010  Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | e-learning Tags for this post: app | free | iPod | math | mathematics | maths | touch.  2 comments - more welcome!The maths department at Birley recently purchased 12 iPod touches for use in lessons. I’ve been getting them set up and trying them out. They have caused great excitement in my lessons – in fact, just seeing the iPods was enough to drive some of my students into a frenzy of excitement! Anyway, this is very [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: March 30th, 2010 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | resources and ideas Tags for this post: Leave a commentThese were originally on a wiki, http://bccpgce.pbworks.com, but since I’m handing control of that over to the student teachers, I though I’d better keep a copy of my own: Starting out with Educational Technology The aim of the session is to provide you with some starting points and ideas that you can incorporate into your teaching. You [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: December 28th, 2009 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | 3. Teacherhacker | Wordpress | e-learning Tags for this post: image | rollover | Wordpress. Leave a commentYesterday I wrote about creating rollover images in Wordpress. This is all very nice, but what’s the point? 1. Engagement Last term I sat with some students and asked them to show me things that they liked on various websites. There was no agreement whatsoever about preferred colour schemes, design styles or layouts, but almost everyone liked [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: December 22nd, 2009 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | resources and ideas Tags for this post: #movemeon | Twitter. Leave a commentWhat happened when Doug Belshaw asked educators to share hints and tips using Twitter and the #movemeon hashtag? Lots of people joined in to share their ideas and create a really interesting crowd-sourced resource. Doug created an archive of the tweets using Twapperkeeper, which is great, but it’s not likely to reach teachers that aren’t already [...] Posted by: Lois Lindemann on: November 16th, 2009 Posted in: 1. Learning and Teaching | resources and ideas Tags for this post: discussion | math | mathematics | maths | parallel | perpendicular | photos | Sheffield. Leave a commentI really like using photos as a starting point to get my students talking about maths. I used this slideshow [PowerPoint] with Y7 to get them talking about parallel and perpendicular lines. Parallel Perpendicular All the photos are taken in Sheffield; I’ve found that pictures of our local area always go down [...] |
Hi, I'm Lois Lindemann - welcome to my blog! I teach maths and ICT at Birley Community College, a secondary school in the UK. This is where I'm planning to share links and explore ideas that I find useful or interesting - hopefully other educators will also find something of interest here. Thanks for dropping in. Feel free to comment. NB: Any opinions expressed here are those of the author or commenter; they don't (necessarily) reflect the view taken by Birley CC.   |
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