Wanderlust – The Path from Storybooks to World Exploration

How Childhood Stories can Spark a Passion for Geography and Travel Background I’m sitting down ready to write a blog article (written) about our recent trip to China. I have many photographs and for those who haven’t been to China I want to put those pictures into context by providing a series of maps with … Read more

Using OneNote in the Classroom

I prepared an episode of the video seminar I conduct at work called smoothies. These are short 15 minute webinars aimed at passing on a tip or two for our ICT teachers in our schools. Although aimed at primary school ICT teachers, I really enjoy the input received from dedicated ICT managers in the higher education schools.

I had a chance to visit a primary school and see firsthand the interaction between teacher, student and a large presentation screen controlled by notebooks on the network. Although this alone represented a considerable amount of investment it made me think about the software application that could be used to both present, collaborate, review, mark and return work without the need for cables or emails.

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