Some thoughts to start with......

When I first heard that we had to create a blog on ICT related info I did freak a little as, for me I prefer the old pen and paper approach as it seems so much more simple and less stressful. However I have to admitt that in previous school practices when I have endeavoured to apply ICT to my lessons I have found them to be extremely successful. Not only have the kids been motivated and inspired to dive into their tasks but I as the teacher have felt inspired more so than usual, whilst delivering the lessons. The overall outcome of the lessons therefore, were positive all round.

During my previous school experience I had a year 1/2 class, there were several websites that I used again and again in plenarys, introductions, mental orals and just about everything and anything. The first one which I would recommend to anyone is a website called Topic box. A friend and me stumbled over this while searching for lesson inspiration! It has just about everything and anything for every subjct and saves hours of searching and scanning the web for topics. It's fab! Here is the link below...

http://www.topicbox.co.uk/

Another site found useful was the woodlands juniour school site. This again has heaps of great ideas for IWB use and is especially fab for intro's to the lessons. I mainly used it for maths mental orals as the kids loved it! I found that no matter how dull a maths topic could possibly be, using interactive ICT means made the lessons 100% more enjoyable! Whether it was team games with times tables, beating indivdual targets or a class effort to beat the clock in scoring points, all the children enthusiastically participated. So the link for the maths site here is....

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/maths/