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I was thinking about looking at the cold spell over the coming week, I’ll be asking students to write a piece about how the weather effected their week, but I also fancied doing something a little more creative- so we’ll have a go at developing some winter Iphone Apps!

I thought this could be adapted to other topics, so I’ve put a template together.

Both can be downloaded from my SlideShare account.

Thanks to Liz Smith, who has sent some examples of her students’ work.

using the Facebook template and

the Twitter template.

Well done all.

A bit of a follow up from my Facebook profile template.

I’ve used Twitter live in the classroom before, I really like the need for students to think carefully, and prioritise, the text they use. But we don’t always have net access -so as with the Facebook profile, I’ve produced a template on PowerPoint, I’ve orientated the slides to portrait, looks better and there is more room for students to insert text.

I thought this could be used to summarise the main learning points of a lesson, the key points made in a video, or the most important facts to remember about a case study. You could also use it creatively for a character/place/process within a lesson.

I also liked the idea of using the Twitter template as a more formal starter or plenary, so produced this guess the Twitter user template, I’ve animated it, so people only need to change the text. Both can be downloaded from Slideshare.

[slideshare id=1947208&doc=startertwitter-090903090414-phpapp02]

I’ve been working on several schemes of work, it’s surprising how uncreative you become under pressure. One of my escapes has been reading about people having much more exciting times during their holidays on Facebook.

I was working on a R.S. scheme of work and wanted students to produce a summary of their thinking about Lucifer, for some reason I wondered what Lucifer’s Facebook profile would look like. It’s just how I think .

I’ve devised this profile outline, I thought it might get students thinking creatively. Students could justify their thinking.

[slideshare id=1923315&doc=facebookoutline-090829050334-phpapp01]

I then thought it could be adapted to non-supernatural entities, how about Old Harry?

I think it might be a nice little starter or plenary activity, alternatively teachers could create one and ask students to justify their decisions.

Do you think this would be useful?

In response to a post on the SLN Geography forum, I’ve started this collaborative presentation. Hopefully others will contribute to the document development.

The nice thing about Google Docs is they can be downloaded as a pdf and ppt. Please email/pm/twitter dm me with your email address, so I can add you to the collaborators and you can edit the document. Very easy to do, just like PowerPoint, but you will have to sign up for a free Google account. With a bit of selfless collaboration it should make a useful document.

Thanks to Rob Chambers for emailing me about this new blog, some useful ideas already related to SMART boards… which I’ll investigate over the coming weeks.

Thanks to Alan for updating my presentation with the new features… (not sure what’s gone off with the first slide?)

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With these extremely hard National Geographic puzzles…

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