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Get Smart

Don't forget to download the latest Version of Smart Notebook which was released over the summer. Click here to link to their website.

Steljes – the UK based Smartboard company - have also started on online tutorial package that smart users can download for free called: Bridget. Click here for further details.

Match up!

Have you downloaded 'Match up' yet for free, from Microsoft's website? Why not load your class pictures? Click here to go to the site.

Windows Media Player

Make sure you are up-to-date with the latest version of Windows Media Player. Download it here.

Photostory 3

A must for the classroom, whatever age you're teaching - Photostory 3 allows you to create a storyboard of pictures and digital photographs and combine them with text and music to create a 'movie type experience'.

If you haven't used it with your class already you will be blown away by the potential it has for teaching and learning. With Foundation stage I have used it to create a Photostory of 'Spring has sprung!' where the children took digital photographs of spring features around the school, added appropriate 'spring like' music and narrated some of the photographs. With Year 1 and 2, I used Photostory to show the children about the life cycle of a caterpillar to a butterfly. Later on in the term, the same children worked in pairs to create their own Photostory of 'Seasides in the past'. At KS2, Photostory can be a great assessment tool. It can be used by the teacher to introduce a topic, unit or concept and the by the children at then end to show what they have understood. I have used it with Years 5 and 6 to create a Photostory on 'The Vikings'.

Photostory 3 can be downloaded here. Note that it needs Windows Media Player 10 to run.

Please email me if you have used this successfully in your classroom already.