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	<title>The Link</title>
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	<description>Hints, tips and ideas for techy and not-so-techy teachers</description>
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		<title>Is this the world&#8217;s cheapest interactive whiteboard?</title>
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How much is an interactive whiteboard? How about £5? In fact, for that price, you can have an easily portable interactive whiteboard. Interested?
Actually, I’m cheating a little: I’m assuming that you already have a classroom with a projector and either a laptop or desktop computer (which is the case in almost every classroom in my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.morethanmaths.com/thelink/2010/05/28/is-this-the-worlds-cheapest-interactive-whiteboard/</link>
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		<title>Getting Started with the iPod Touch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An iPod Touch is a versatile device that will allow you to do many things: play music; send and receive email, access the Internet; play games… The good news is it’s really easy to use: just three buttons and a touch screen. That’s it! 
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Using the iPod Touch in the Classroom – some Dos [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.morethanmaths.com/thelink/2010/04/27/getting-started-with-the-ipod-touch/</link>
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		<title>Touched: Getting started with maths apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.morethanmaths.com/thelink/2010/04/24/touched-getting-started-with-maths-apps/</link>
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		<title>One for the Interactive Whiteboard: Jigsaw Planet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jigsaw Planet is a site that allows you to upload images and create jigsaws from them. You can then challenge someone to complete the puzzle. It makes a really nice activity for the interactive whiteboard. Click on one of the images below to try an example:
Eiffel TowerHow to draw a pie chart 
The site is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.morethanmaths.com/thelink/2009/10/10/jigsaw-planet/</link>
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		<title>Focus on: Games Based Learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Games based learning can be highly motivating, it’s boy friendly and it’s fun. There’s also a growing amount of research that suggests that games based learning can help children with poor working memory to improve, provided that the learning is targeted.
Obviously, the key to success  is to balance the learning and the fun. All of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.morethanmaths.com/thelink/2009/10/06/focus-on-games-based-learning/</link>
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		<title>Teachmeet North West</title>
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On Friday 2nd October I tried something new. Instead of heading home and collapsing on the sofa, I drove to the BBC’s 21st Cenury Classroom in Salford to attend my first Teachmeet.
What is a Teachmeet? Basically it’s a group of teachers who meet up to exchange ideas. Some of these people are actually there in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.morethanmaths.com/thelink/2009/10/06/teachmeet-north-west/</link>
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		<title>One for the Interactive Whiteboard: Classtools Fruit Machine</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The fruit machine is a fun way of picking students randomly.
It&#8217;s easy to set up: just go to the Classtools website and enter a list of names. You can copy the names from  a list made on a word processor or spreadsheet—then you don’t have to keep typing them each time. As soon as you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.morethanmaths.com/thelink/2009/10/06/fruitmachine/</link>
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