Author Archive | Maggie Morrissey

Photography Ideas In Education 1

Schools continue to spend large amounts of money on tablets, whilst I have no views at this time on how beneficial these resources are, I do question why schools are prepared to purchase such expensive items but appear reluctant to buy digital cameras?  As I travel around various schools I see the teachers using digital […]

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Photography Ideas In Education 2

Using pictures to introduce topics is very common now in schools. However I believe children should be taught how to use a camera properly. Then use their photos to develop ideas and learn about different aspects of our world. Anyway here are a few I took earlier: Children can discuss differences between their pictures and […]

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Working in Shropshire

Once again I had the chance to go and work with the children from St Mary’s Primary School Bucknell. The school is very small so the children get more opportunities to be independent learners and they are going to run their school podcast and blog.  I went down to help them become familiar with audacity […]

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Apps To Help Autistic Children Communicate

Following a request on Linked In for suitable apps to help autistic children communicate, I thought I would gather together some of the suggestions here. I suggested speechbox which I haven’t had the chance to use but it certainly looks interesting http://www.speechboxapp.com/ I must say, it does look good value in comparison to some of the recommendations. Bitsboard […]

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Internet Potential

The Internet is truly an amazing resource, not just for basic teaching ideas but it gives our children the chance to connect with others around the world. ‘Voices around the world’ is a not for profit project which is linking the voices of young people around the world. In 2012 more than 300 schools from […]

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Data Handling and Technology

I have often noticed that Data Handling in the primary school can become rather dull. How many surveys can children do about their favourite foods? With this in mind I decided to grab their interest with technology.  We started to discuss mobile phones and if they had one, what make was this and why they […]

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ICT

Well I am always amazed at the sort of help and advice that can be given out on the Internet and I would like to say thanks to everyone who has offered comments and links to my questions about software and its effectiveness with autistic children. I quite like some of the articles in this […]

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Teaching

Is a demanding job which is both frustrating and delightful in equal measure. Yes we have reasonable holidays which most teachers use to catch up on work they cannot do when the children are in school. To see the horrendous comments following this article is most upsetting.(not the actual article, the comments section that follows) […]

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