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I have put up a post to a free site called Jigsawplanet that enables you to create some free puzzles on any image file, bit picture or text, you have. Here are two examples, one of an image, the other of a simple text. You can make the puzzles easier than this. The site allows you to choose the level of difficulty.
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Added by Mark Purves on November 9, 2009 at 11:23pm —
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Hi
I have put info about some poems I found on the subject of Autumn
here.
I have simply put material I found elsewhere onto a Smartboard Notebook file for easier viewing but the site I found them on is referenced and has links to a lot of 'comptines' and poems suitable for KS2.
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Added by Mark Purves on November 6, 2009 at 9:46am —
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Hi everyone.
If you are looking for an idea with some whizz bangs and explosions for Thursday you could try using or adapting materials I have posted at
souffler.co.uk
It might look at first sight that the text is too hard for Primary age kids but I think you would be surprised at how much they could understand if you teach them the tools to be a Language detective and 'decode' a text. Plus they get to have a go at a Powerpoint that has l…
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Added by Mark Purves on October 30, 2009 at 9:51pm —
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Hi one and all. It's been a while since I posted but here is
a link to a package of resources I produced exploiting the French version of the song to introduce Noddy (Oui Oui in French). As repeating "oui oui" repe…
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Added by Mark Purves on June 19, 2009 at 11:30am —
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I put a post on my blog about creating these. I used them as a team prize when teaching the topic of colours and facial descriptions but you could use them for an Easter Egg race. You can read it at this address:
http://souffler.typepad.com/home/2009/03/easter-balloons.html
Joyeuses Pâques!
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Added by Mark Purves on March 27, 2009 at 6:30am —
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I came across a great little site called Teacher's Pet that provides you with a program that installs a toolbar into MS Word. This is a text manipulation generator that allows you to create fun language activities at a click of a button.
I have posted an explanation of how it works
here, and there are links to the site. It would be useful too in any Primary school for liter…
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Added by Mark Purves on March 17, 2009 at 6:02am —
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I have uploaded a few files
here. I have been teaching colours and thought these might be of some use to someone.
Mark
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Added by Mark Purves on March 12, 2009 at 5:25am —
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I have put a post about this on
my blog page, together with a short script I prepared for a yr 7 group but might be suitable for yr 6 too. I am interested in getting any feedback from colleagues about this area as I feel it is really under explored. Does anyone else do this much?
Mark
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Added by Mark Purves on March 8, 2009 at 2:49pm —
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I've uploaded a powerpoint version of this game
here. A cathartic experience for all of your pupils, especially if you are brave enough to subsitute the cartoon teacher with your own photo!
Mark
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Added by Mark Purves on February 28, 2009 at 8:51am —
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Just thought I would post this link to a site I stumbled upon today. There is a fantastic load of material here for French and Spanish teachers. It is a Spanish company site and languages represented are all the mainland Spanish ones plus French and English.
http://www.childtopia.com/index.php
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Added by Mark Purves on February 3, 2009 at 7:30pm —
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Here is a video explanation of how to do this. It works for any shockwave flash file but the example looks at how to extract any of the flash animations in Smart Board 10 and import them into Powerpoint. It also shows you how you can export
any features such as images, soundfiles, video, contained in the notebook and use them in worksheets linked to your Notebook display. Any ideas that you c…
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Added by Mark Purves on February 2, 2009 at 5:40am —
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Another resource that I picked up from BETT was the Primary French software from
2Simple. Having had a chance to look at it, I really like a lot of what they have done. You can have a look for yourselves, but I have begun to use some of this with my Primary classes and it can be used as support for a non-specialist to follow up work you have done, as a networked program for pupil self study, or to support your own teaching. If anyone else has used it,…
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Added by Mark Purves on January 24, 2009 at 5:20pm —
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After picking up a copy of the updated version of Smart Board at the BETT show last week, I have been experimenting with a few things and have uploaded a few files onto the
Teacher's Resource Exchange. Rather than copy everything here, have a look and see if it is relevant. There a lot of extra possibilities now that they have added animation to objects and text. I used the Bonne Anne…
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Added by Mark Purves on January 24, 2009 at 5:04pm —
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I know I'm behind the times putting this on mid January but it might be of use still. Here is a
link to the section on my Typepad page for a song and some Smartboard materials. Gets them jigging in the aisles this one!
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Added by Mark Purves on January 22, 2009 at 5:11am —
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As promised, I have done a
video to demonstrate how to do this. The resolution doesn't seem to be very clear but I hope it is enough to give an idea of how to do it. Let me know if you need further help. If you think of any ideas for developing this technique or teaching applications let me know!
The advantages over the IWB spotlight tool are that you can automate the process and adjust parameters of box size, timings, whether th…
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Added by Mark Purves on January 11, 2009 at 12:15am —
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I just wanted to share an excellent site,
http://www.bookbox.com that I have just come across. You can download the these stories for a very small charge and they are available in different languages. The text is highlighted in a similar fashion to a Karaoke subtitle, excellent for linking text to sound. Very soon you will be able to get pupils to hear the narration and then record their own soundtrack too. A real gem of a find. An example of a video from the…
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Added by Mark Purves on January 5, 2009 at 8:30pm —
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You can imitate the spotlight function of an interactive whiteboard using powerpoint. These two examples were done for a secondary school but the idea can be used for any text. It doesn't work with pictures as what you are revealing has to be the same colour as the background. However it is useful for reading practice as you vary the speed at which the highlight shape moves over the text. I will try and upload a video explanation of how to do this at some point but you are exploiting the use of…
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Added by Mark Purves on December 21, 2008 at 1:30pm —
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This might be a trick that everyone already knows but it really focuses ki…
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Added by Mark Purves on December 13, 2008 at 9:30am —
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There is a chance that very unexpectedly I might have to relocate to Hingham in Norfolk. Can anyone who is involved in Primary Languages in Norfolk give me any information about what is happening? I see on the web that they have just held their county wide conference on MFL in KS2 and that they have piloted the a cluster approach of secondaries linking with their feeder primaries. What hardware is generally available in schools? What courses are being run? I would be grateful for any insight.
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Added by Mark Purves on November 23, 2008 at 3:29pm —
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For some years now I have used a media player in lessons now called Sanako Media Assistant Solo, formerly called Divace Solo. I have just tried out the newer Sanako version and it is an excellent piece of kit. It allows you to very easily add subtitles to video. For example, I have added the whole transcript of every series of the Channel 4 series Chez Mimi to each episode at the click of a button.You can add questions that appear under the video at the precise moment on the track where you need…
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Added by Mark Purves on November 12, 2008 at 7:30am —
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