TES Education Show Oct 2009

Last week we enjoyed taking part in the TES Education Show at Olympia in London. It was a great experience for both myself and the children, who enjoyed joining the “world of work” as they demonstrated a range of technical equipment for use in the classroom and beyond. They both enjoyed the chance to use [...]

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Using Live Writer to Blog

Prior to this post, each article or post that we have added to our Dragontree blog has been created “live” on the internet. This has often resulted in us typing up location reports of outdoor learning opportunities such as museum visits or field work on our return to “base” (whether that be home base, the [...]

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Calling all parents!!!!(Especially Mums!)

Oh my goodness me! Check this out!

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Making the Most of Learning Opportunities

Broadly speaking, we do follow schemes of work here at Dragontree. They tend to be history, science or geography-based schemes or topics that allow us to fit in much of our day-to-day literacy work, particularly in respect of research, note-taking, report writing and creative writing.
However, as adult human beings we are motivated by a range [...]

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Using our DS Lites for Learning

Since returning to our studies after the Christmas break, we have been experimenting with the use of Nintendo DS Lites in our learning activities. We spend 20 minutes at the beginning of the morning session and 20 minutes at the beginning of the afternoon with our DS machines. I work on More Brain Training (yes, [...]

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We want your feedback

As our blog develops we want to explore more types and forms of writing and content and would like to know which audience/s we are writing for.
Let us know by using the poll below.

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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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Blogging Our Way Through the Curriculum

As a complete Digital Immigrant (reference to Marc Prensky “Don’t Bother Me Mom – I’m Learning”) who is still being dragged kicking and screaming into the world of ICT (to be honest, I’d rather curl up with my dog-eared copy of Pride and Prejudice or Elizabeth Gaskell’s North and South, with a nice cup of [...]

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Great New Project

Welcome back after the Summer break. We’d like to tell you about a great new project that we have started here on the Dragontree Home Educating Blog. M and A have chosen areas of the world that they would like to learn more about. Part of our new World Studies includes a round-up of the [...]

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Welcome to our new website!

We are a home educating family from the UK and we thought that it was about time that we started our own website as a way of learning about digital publishing and web 2.0 technologies.
We hope that you will bookmark us and follow some of our learning adventures.

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