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August Tips and Tricks

Tips and tricks – August 09 This month’s trick is another unique way for hiding and revealing answers. The best way to explain this trick is to guide you through the creation process (not to forget the video) and then you can see the magic unfold right before your own eyes. This trick uses layering and makes use of the […]

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Tips and Tricks

Pull tabsAs you may know, the good old hide and reveal activities work wonders in class and over the past year we have reviewed a couple of nifty ways to perform it. This month we’re looking at the idea of pull tabs and the ability to hide information off-screen and then pull it on-screen using

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The most powerful student response solution returns for round 2.0

Student participation experts WordWall have just released their next generation of handheld clicker and interactive interface in a joint WordWall 2.0 launch. Giving themselves a massive facelift, WordWall has introduced influential changes to both their interface software and hand-held clickers.  Continuing their focus on student participation whilst also taking their interactive interface a huge step forward and

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Manzana’s Websites of the Month

Name: WorldWide Telescope Address: http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/   WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables your computer to function as a virtual telescope, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world.     This amazing website will allow you to download one of the latest and greatest applications that Microsoft has come up with.  WWT gives users

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Wireless Tablet

The Wireless Tablet lets you take control of your computer from anywhere in the room.  By connecting the tablet to your computer, via an RF connection, you simply move the pressure sensitive pen across the light-weight tablets surface and it instantly moves your mouse cursor.  Giving you full mouse control from anywhere in the room! But as

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Manzana’s Primary and Intermediate Websites of the Month

Name: Birmingham Grid for Learning Address: www.bgfl.org/bgfl/15.cfm An English website, ‘the Birmingham Grid for Learning’ is a comprehensive and well resourced online learning environment.  The sites real value comes in its free Interactive Whiteboard Resources.  With resources divided up by school year and subject there is a massive variety of engaging and interactive activities.   From simple activities such as matching body

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