Sharing the Addiction

Today I have been working with teachers at Waterloo School looking at the program Clicker 5. I will add resources for this program to my software wiki in the near future but just wanted to say a few things in support of this program. When I am going around schools, people who have heard about Clicker see it as only useful for special needs children. I disagree with this perception as it is a very flexible program and can be used for anything. Until I do get more about this on my wiki, click here to be taken through a tour of what Clicker can do.

Secondly, I was one of the presenters of an afternoon workshop looking at how ICT could best support the early stages of inquiry. We looked at websearching tips and how to use Kidspiration to collate ideas over the course of an inquiry. Here is our attempt at putting our ideas into a Kidspiration mindmap before and after doing a mini inquiry on “Was Ancient Egypt a good place to live?”

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