Jackson Pollock App

Jackson Pollock App

Your pupils can get creative and paint abstract paintings in the style of the great artist Jackson Pollock using this app . Use your finger to apply the paint and turn your iPod to make the paint drip. You can choose from a range of individual colours or from colour...
Digital Art Week 2012

Digital Art Week 2012

Last year a great Digital Art Week was organised by myself, Simon Lewis (Anseo) and Fred Boss (NCTE) which the kids in my class thoroughly enjoyed. Planning is well advanced for this year’s Digital Art Week which will take place from 23rd – 27th April. The...
Apps to Support Literacy

Apps to Support Literacy

Check out this article I wrote on Apps to Support Literacy in the Classroom for the March 2012 edition of InTouch, the INTO magazine for primary school teachers. The article mentions six different apps to support different aspects of literacy: Rory’s Story Cubes...
QR Code Spelling Test

QR Code Spelling Test

I’ve written some other posts on this site about how we are experimenting using QR Codes in the classroom (Our School Community QR Codes, Animal Homes QR Codes, QR Codes in the Classroom). This week I decided to try to integrate our weekly spelling test for my...
Sunday Business Post “Best Schools” Deception

Sunday Business Post “Best Schools” Deception

 I received some Tweets yesterday informing me that the Sunday Business Post was going to be publishing a supplement in today’s edition on technology in schools. I was really interested to find out what developments in technology in education were in the...