Ideas about learning, ICT and pedagogy

Assessment for Learning made engaging and purposeful

Visual Assessment
Using Active Learning techniques benefit students greatly as discussed in the introduction to this chapter, and creating opportunities for using this method with assessment really does produce excellent results. Students who work with assessments on this level eventually gain a concrete understanding about:
•    the various components of an answer;
•    how to build an ideal [...]

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Engaging WEB 2.0 Tools to use in the classroom

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One way of creating meaning and relevance behind stories is to use illustrations and photos of various kinds. An even more powerful way is to add sound to a story to really capture a particular moment or event. Imagine including all of these features and then being able to add them to the exact location [...]

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Useful and Effective Twitter Tools

Here follows a list of Twitter tools that I use frequently because they make my online work easier to manage. I have decided to focus specifically on tools that can provide impact on the way I use Social Media and ideas for classroom practice instead of fun and cool tools as there are already plenty [...]

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How to stay energized all year round

Summer holidays are great, that’s a fact. You feel rested, relaxed and you may even have the odd idea or two that you would like to try out when you return to the classroom at some point, but of course that’s in a distant future very far away? Suddenly the new term is upon you [...]

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Thinking Skills and Eye-Q: Fantastic read!

Ian Harris, Oliver Caviglioli, and Carol Thompson
Thinking Skills and Eye Q: Visual Tools for Raising Intelligence is perhaps one of the best books available on mind-mapping and Thinking Skills diagrams. Many of the ideas you’ll come across on this website has been inspired from Thinking Skills and Eye-Q.
I first came across this book as [...]

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