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Carry on Learning. 21st Century Northern Luddite. Twitter basics. Yudu.com. Conversations in the cloud. Voice Thread. The Digital Library is a database of articles about successful VoiceThread projects. Our hope is to create a resource that offers guidance and inspiration for people undertaking new projects. Please contribute a VoiceThread to help the Digital Library grow. All About Polar Bears - Kindergarten ESL by Monica Schnee Monica Schnee taught a nonfiction social studies/science unit about polar bears.

We spent a lot of time reading books, looking at websites, particularly National Geographic and Nature on PBS. Higher Ed Grammar Practice - Infinitive or Gerund? Students practice grammar by forming sentences from a word cloud. Language learners use VoiceThread to practice speaking - Bophany Huot, City College of San Francisco This is a great example of how an ESL student can practice her computer skills and her language skills to talk about everyday activities.

Education Using VoiceThread in an online course from Professor Russ Meade VoiceThread "humanizes" the on-line classroom experience. The C.U.B. WordPress.com - Get a Free Blog Here. Choosing a theme for your blog. About David Mitchell. About David Mitchell David is a Google Certified Teacher and is currently Deputy Head Teacher at Heathfield Primary School in Bolton. he is known to most people as @DeputyMitchell as Twitter is where he spend much of his time if I’m not in school or not on blogs! David introduced blogging to Heathfield Primary School in December 2009 and in this time both Heathfield and David have seen interest from media but more importantly other schools who are looking for a new tool to engage their learners. Heathfield Primary recently featured live on BBC1, you can watch the footage below: David’s enthusiasm to let blogging evolve in school and allow the pupils the opportunity to develop their use of blogs keeps on making national headlines.

Here are a selection of links that tell you a little more about David Mitchell and Heathfield Primary School: It is projects like this that have enthused and engaged learners at Heathfield Primary School. Maths : Mr. Mitchell's Group Blog. Jun June 19, 2011 | 1 Comment Just look how my group are improving on their times!! Matthew wins today’s challenge and gets his performance Audioboo’d! Matthew won today”s times table challenge (7x) in 12.7 seconds!! June 13, 2011 | 7 Comments Today we looked again at our 6 times table.

June 9, 2011 | 2 Comments There’s no stopping us in our quest to learn our tables! June 8, 2011 | 5 Comments Today, we raised the bar! June 7, 2011 | 9 Comments Considering many of the pupils didn’t know their 3 times table a few days ago, creating this competition in class seems to be working VERY well! Today, in Maths, we are trying to increase our speed recall of our times table facts. May. The Sandwich Project. Humairaa dazzles me with her wonderful writing and professional performance! | World of Pandora. Voicethread -Heathfield's Year 6 Blog. March 23, 2011 Balanced Argument Feedback/Assessment Are Zoos good or bad? This is the question the Year 6 pupils were asked to research, plan and write a balanced argument on. Some have finished and have been able to type theirs up, place them inside a Voicethread ready to be Peer Assessed by not only their peers but by their audience.

February 3, 2011 Show not tell your reader! As you know, we have been using the world of Pandora from Avatar to inspire our story writing. January 27, 2011 Sneak previews from our Pandora World writing We will be spending quite a few days on our Pandora stories, as a result, you won’t see much appearing from our Literacy lessons on the blog. January 18, 2011 Describing Pandora!!! Hi. January 16, 2011 The World of Pandora If you are having viewing problems of the pad below, please use this link to take you to the full screen version. January 6, 2011 Making our work even better Carys has been writing about the impact blogging has had on her learning. November 29, 2010. @DeputyMitchell | aka David Mitchell.