Showing posts with label Teaching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Teaching. Show all posts

MrPICT.com

  January 11, 2019            No comments

A few months ago, Facebook gave me the opportunity to launch a supporter aspect to my page. For £3.50 a month, teachers can subscribe to receive the following benefits:


This platform, for me, is a way to bring my CPD training in schools online. I regularly receive messages from teachers saying that they would love to attend one of my CPD and Inset sessions, however, due to one reason or the other (location, school not allowing them to go etc) they can't make it. It gives teachers the opportunity to take ownership of their own professional development. I honestly think that the best resource in the classroom is the teacher and I want this platform to be a way teachers can build confidence in knowledge to best make use of the technology in their classroom.

So far, it has been amazing to have so many people sign up and the feedback has been so positive, especially when you see teachers using the ideas and sharing the incredible work from their pupils.

Over the Christmas break, I designed a website to make it really easy for supporters to navigate and easily access the exclusive CPD content. Anyone can view the website to see everything we've posted so far. We are adding more content each week. When you sign up you can access everything we have posted since the beginning, including the eBooks.


Please do visit the new website - MrPICT.com - by tapping the picture below.




The Power of Reading!

  December 16, 2018            No comments
As much as I love technology, I will always talk about the importance of reading on my CPD sessions. It really annoys me when people like to blame technology as a reason why children don't read as much. We like to blame technology for a number of things but for me, it comes down to choices. I hope through this blog and my social media pages, I demonstrate how, when used effectively, it can transform teaching and learning. Unfortunately, I think too many of us make the wrong choices with technology.

When pictures like this appear on my social feeds, it does wind me up because they both can be valuable and certainly enhance each other:




For me, technology can enhance the reading experience allowing pupils to explore texts in more creative ways. This is something I wanted to promote in my yearly Christmas video.

For the past 9 years, I always treat my pupils to a silly video at the end of our annual talent show. To see what I have produced previously - CLICK HERE.

This year, I decided to do something with a more serious message. I absolutely love the new John Lewis Christmas advert. In fact, I blogged some ideas for how you can use it, click the picture to see.


Inspired by this advert, I created my own looking at how reading can take you to some magical places. Please help share this important message by sharing the video far and wide!







For the supporters of my facebook page, I will share a more in-depth video explaining the process to create this.

Creating an Interactive Christmas Scene

  December 06, 2018            No comments
I love using Christmas as a way to engage children in their learning. They are excited, inquisitive and generally really interested in anything Christmas. Recently, I worked with Year 2 where they created their own Interactive Christmas scene using Chatterpix Kids and Thinglink. Here is an example of what they created:



I have posted a step-by-step guide for how to do this activity on the supporter part of my Facebook page. Sign up by tapping the picture below:


This idea can easily be adapted to other areas of the curriculum, such as:



Read more about this idea here.


Read more about this idea here.


Read more about this idea here

Completely innocent but dodgy children's drawings Vol. 2

  November 20, 2018            No comments

Since I posted Completely innocent but dodgy children's drawings Vol. 1, I have been sent even more brilliant images and I just had to share, you're welcome:
A post shared by Lee Parkinson (@ict_mrp) on




A post shared by Lee Parkinson (@ict_mrp) on



A post shared by Lee Parkinson (@ict_mrp) on





A post shared by Lee Parkinson (@ict_mrp) on






A post shared by Lee Parkinson (@ict_mrp) on




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