February
16
2012
The Zondle site recently went through some refurbishments. Here is an updated video to get you started.
The video is on YouTube, if you can’t access the video, try this link instead.
The old Zondle video is here.
January
2
2012
Following on from the great Zondle videos posted by the Zondle team, I have made this video aimed more for children. The children at my school wanted to know how to make their own games so here it is.
January
2
2012
This short video shows how to find places on Google Maps, how to get directions from A to B and how to use Streetview. Streetview is a great tool for exploring the world beyond your classroom. You could do a risk assessment of an upcoming school trip as a whole class. What do they need to look out for as they walk along the road? Are there any key buildings you want them to make a note of?
January
2
2012
Google Maps is a great tool for exploring the world and many people have used it to create their own maps (see below) but did you know that if you create your own map, you can also add pictures to the pins? A basic Google Maps overview is here.
So why not create a map for places your bear has travelled, visitors/comments to your blogs, landmarks, capital cities, Olympic countries, European 2012 countries?
Some other useful, collaborative maps:
Tom Barrett’s Maths Maps
January
2
2012
A couple of people have asked how they can use Google Docs with their class without setting up Google Apps. Now this might be because the school is using another system, so I thought I’d help and create this short video.
To get started, the teacher does need a gmail account and I would suggest making a generic one for them ‘as a teacher’ rather than using their personal one. They will also need a way of sharing the link to the document afterwards. This might be through email or the school VLE.
August
9
2011
Many thanks to the team at Zondle for making this video for the site. The video shows how to create activities and how to add teachers and learners too. This also covers how to assign topics to learners as well.
The first is a Youtube link and the second is Viddler. Pete (@primarypete_) has written a blog post about why he loves Zondle and you can find that here. Oh, Zondle is free too! Other Youtube videos from Zondle can be found here: http://www.youtube.com/user/zondleDotCom
August
6
2011
Short screencast to demonstrate how you can use Flubaroo (a script in Google Forms) to automatically assess and grade a class set of tests.
August
6
2011
This short video clip explains relative and absolute cell referencing in Spreadsheets and where/when you might use them.