Google Cardboard To run expeditions successfully each student needs a Google Cardboard. There are a number of options here – Google list a few on their Get Cardboard website – these are probably quite high quality – but on the whole Read More …
Much of the Google Expeditions content is focused around students experiencing in Virtual Reality places you are not able to take students. However the Cardboard Camera App opens up a new possibility for Geography Fieldwork (or to be honest any Read More …
Our Google for Education Case Study:
Update – There is now an RM Case Study on this – click here to view. Currently at School we use a lot of cloud based systems, Frog, Sleuth, Google, Go4Schools, SISRA, ClickView, RMBooks, The Suite, VMWare to name a Read More …
When it comes to one off events (such as Open Evening) I use Guidebook to build a mobile app to support the event. The free account gives access to most of the features and enables you to have up to Read More …
I made this document for a staff training session on Google Classroom – feel free to copy and use if you want to.. For more detail the Google Classroom Help Centre is also quite useful.
We use ClickView across the school to stream videos from our online library – for those who have not seen it ClickView is an online video platform, in our case containing our 1,600+ videos, plus access to another 11,000+ in Read More …
Past papers are a useful tool to use with students, both in class and for homework – but almost always they come as a PDF file from the exam board, which makes them difficult to use online. Thankfully Google Drive Read More …
Google Classroom is great for setting work, but assignments are only visible by the students and you. Often you want to share these with other staff and parents, without adding them to all the classroom student list, or perhaps you Read More …
Update – There is a much better version of this developed by Charlie Love – I suggest you use his version available here: http://charlielove.org/?p=9956 The one missing link in Google Classroom seems to be its ability to show the deadlines of Read More …
Chrome Extensions are small add on’s for the Chrome Browser that can provide shortcuts and additional functionality to Chrome. Here are some great extensions for teachers to use in Chrome: Snagit Snagit from Techsmith can be used to grab screenshots or Read More …
With over 800 Chromebooks now in the academy – here are the results of the Chromebook Survey for 2014: View the previous survey here.