Box Of Tricks!

First of all I apologise for this blog post being blogged last minute, I had completely thought I had done it until I was reviewing my blog and realised it was not there. Sorry fellow bloggers. Now Box of Tricks, well where do I start with this wonderful blog. First of all the thing that struck me first about this blog was that it was created by a teacher from Nottingham, therefore you know that this blog is reliable, who wouldn’t want a blog that is reliable and trustworthy? This blog inspires everyone from students to teachers, it has something for everyone. It is so easy to use with lots of links and has a basic language for all to understand, including me so it must be understandable. It is appealing to the eye, it’s not one of those blogs that ramble and looks boring, trust me if it was like that it wouldn’t even be on my blog yet alone me blogging about how good it is. It shows teachers and students how new technology and websites, which are taking over our lives can inspire them to use in their learning and teaching. It has links where you can connect this blog to your Facebook and Twitter which is great for students, especially the ones that live on these sites! I have to be honest I absolutely love the resources A-Z link that they have, this was probably the deal breaker for me to pick this blog, it has all the up to date forms of websites that can be used in all styles of learning, it has something for everyone. I also like the fact that there is a small paragraph beside each website address telling you exactly what this websites enables you to do, so it then becomes so much easier to find what you are looking for if you haven’t already found it from the search box, yes that’s right it even has a search box, I know it has everything right? Who has time to click on each of the links to be taken to the website to find out for themselves what it is? I cannot believe this blog it has everything. Fellow bloggers whether students or teachers looking for new ways to teach or learn then look no further just click on the link in the sidebar of my blog and be ready to be amazed. I know I was.

Wicked Wordle!

Wordle is a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. Unfortunately I was unable to create my own Wordle for some reason, I don’t know why, but I shall use an example from the Wordle gallery shown above. Wordle is becoming extremely popular and even has teachers writing into them asking if they could use Wordle in the classrooms. I think that this is a great idea. Children will have the enjoyment of making them whether it’s for revision, learning within the classroom or anything else. I think that Wordle could help a lot of children become inspired to learn or revise more through the enjoyment that they get just by creating them. Depending on the learning style of the child or person using Wordle it could become a very big revision or learning tool. I think that this would definitely help me to remember certain words for an exam as I can remember pictures well and I could picture this all colourful and something that I have created myself makes it harder for you to forget. I think that Wordle will begin to grow all over schools, collages, homes and even universities in order to help people have fun and learn at the same time. Who would have thought they would see the word’s fun and learn in the same sentence?

Snowy Valleys

Absolutely knackered today, aching all over. I think it's safe to say that my inner child emerges at the sight of snow. Walked over 12 miles, but that is clearly my exercise for the year. I think it's now time to settle down and start more revision for the exams, they are coming so fast. Never mind it all has to be done, be worth it in the end.
This is the snow in The Valleys.........

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