Bell Primary School

3D Animation - Landing at Gallopolo

A collection of illustrated story starters for young children to prompt creative writing.

Learning in Hand is an educator's resources for mobile and digital learning. It was started in 2002 as part of Tony Vincent's classroom website. At first focusing on Palm handhelds, Learning in Hand now encompasses all kinds of mobile and digital learning. Tony Vincent started teaching fifth grade in Omaha, Nebraska fifteen years ago when it wasn't so easy to publish online.

Fantastic Free Apps

Google Drive is Google's cloud storage  with15 GB free of charge. This is probably one of the best productivity suites that  has a huge potential for us in education.  Besides being able to store our files and access them anywhere with internet connection, Google Drive also enables us to view, share and collaborate in real time while creating a document, spreadsheet or making a drawing. For those of you who are still struggling to come to grips with Google Drive functionalities, Educational Technology and Mobile Learning has a special page packed full of interesting guides and tutorials on how teachers can use Google Drive. Check it out to learn more

The title of this blog says it all.

"Whether you're the parent of a child with a reading disability or an educator that works with learning disabled students on a daily basis, you're undoubtedly always looking for new tools to help these bright young kids meet their potential and work through their disability. While there are numerous technologies out there that can help, perhaps one of the richest is the iPad, which offers dozens of applications designed to meet the needs of learning disabled kids and beginning readers alike. Here, we highlight just a few of the amazing apps out there that can help students with a reading disability improve their skills not only in reading, writing, and spelling, but also get a boost in confidence and learn to see school as a fun, engaging activity, not a struggle."

"The Google Docs collection provides a streamlined, collaborative solution to writing papers, organizing presentations and putting together spreadsheets and reports. But besides the basic features, there are lots of little tricks and hacks you can use to make your Google Docs experience even more productive. Here are 100 great tips for using the documents, presentations and spreadsheets in Google Docs."

Amazing image/ mind map of all the learning theories.

To get the most out of an assessment, you need to know what you're looking for. Using a rubric can help your students understand the assignments in your classroom, and will make your grading process clearer, faster, and more objective and consistent.

A fantastic list of apps for iPads in edu. On this page, we are showcasing Apple Apps which can help educators with teaching and learning activities, as recommended by various educators within the #UKEdchat forum. You can easily sort the columns by clicking the arrows by each heading. Are we missing an iPad app which you use a lot in school? Please let us know in the comments box at the foot of the page, or via @UKEdchat on twitter, facebook, or Google+.

With an increasing focus on programming and coding finding the way onto the curriculum in many different countries across the globe, developers are creating materials which can help educators skill themselves, and also to support pupils in this area.

Music. Like good literature, it comforts the disturbed; disturbs the comfortable and gives voice to the secrets of the heart. Yet a single plaintive note, a whisper of a melody, goes where the boots of words can no longer tread.

This is a fabulous site looking at Wurundjeri People and Country. 

Website highlighting some key events in the settlement of Melbourne / Yarra and the Wurundjeri people.

Amazing blog re all things ipad could be a good place for resources, links and ideas. NewZealand based educator.

Interesting integration of what ipad apps juxtaposed against blooms

Here are three new additions to what continues to be my all-time most popular post, The Best Resources For Helping Teachers Use Bloom's Taxonomy In The Classroom:

This website is from one of the Google+ communities titled 'Google Apps in Education'. On this PD training space you will find a wealth of information to navigate yourself around Google Chrome. Hope it helps.

"This is an assembly from CEOPs Thinkuknow education programme that helps children to understand what constitutes personal information. The assembly enables children to understand that they need to be just as protective of their personal information online, as they are in the real world. It also directs where to go and what to do if children are worried about any of the issues covered."

Now that so many schools are using Google Apps for Education, teachers need to be familiar with many different aspects of Google that they might not otherwise use. The slideshow below has 4 illustrated steps to adding an Event to the Google Calendars that we have on our school intranet.