Promethean Technology Company features our work on Promethean Planet Website!

The people at Promethean asked us to help with a feature about our use of their technology in our home educating and in particular how A had enjoyed being motivated by some of the free resources they provide.
You can read it here
We are very lucky to use a Promethean Activboard in our “classroom” which dad [...]

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Getting more advanced with Stop Motion!

Now – released to the public after a couple of hours focussed production effort while locked in his Film Studio (his bedroom).
M’s latest production – “Stuck In The Sand Pit” – explores some new video production techniques he has just learned.
“Chromakey” – the ability to replace certain coloured parts of an [...]

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World War One – Trench Warfare

Today, M and A played an interactive game which taught them about battle strategies used in trench warfare during World War One.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/worldwarone/hq/trenchwarfare_large.shtml
We often use computer games as part of the children’s learning experience, whether they be simple games that allow the children to practise and self-assess their numeracy or phonics skills, or more sophisticated games [...]

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Chemical Reactions and Carbon Dioxide! Cool!

We have been learning about gases this term in chemistry. Today we thought that it was about time we had some fun with our chemistry set, so M and A set about investigating how Carbon Dioxide can be made from Bicarbonate of Soda and vinegar.
We began by looking at the chemical formula for Bicarbonate of [...]

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A’s video gets presented to hundreds at education event in London

Delegates at the Handheld Learning 2008 event in London got to see A’s Halloween video.
It was shown as part of many presentations relating to learners’ use of emerging technologies and the potential of personalized learning
Since it was made using Activprimary software from Promethean, which is in lots of schools, it is easy to replicate
Way to [...]

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The Battle Of The Marne : 6th to 10th September 1914

M and A report:
The Germans had marched through Belgium and were heading for Paris .The French had tried to recapture Alsace and Lorraine but failed.
The British Army gathered with French reinforcements, many of who had arrived in taxis.

The Germans had already marched 150 miles through Belgium fighting along the way to get to [...]

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Learning about Light – Making Use of Bitesize

We have been learning about light in Physics this term. We had some fun with mirrors – using multiple mirrors to bounce light around the room – then carried out an investigation into the angles that light hits a mirror and the angles that the light reflects off the mirror (setting up the experiment on [...]

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Blogging when mobile!

First post from a mobile!
This could be fun!

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Robot Wars – Gran Gets Into Movie Making!

M roped his Gran in for a spot of stop-motion animation:
The best thing about having an applemac is that you get to make movies whenever you want! Gran helped to move the lego Bionicles and used the video camera to capture the frames.

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Halloween Poem Performed on YouTube

We just experimented with a tool we found in the Activprimary Software that came with our Promethean Activboard called the Screen Recorder.
This lets you capture everything that you are doing. A used the screen recorder to capture herself reading her poem. Then we simply upload the video the Activprimary software created [...]

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