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I saw this video yesterday and thought I would share it with you it really made me think about how technology should be used more creatively within the curriculum and how schools really need to be focusing on how to develop a clear strategy for eLearning.

This video is a must-see for every parent and teacher. Education guru Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity which is so often being pushed out of the exam led approach to the curriculum in the UK. It certainly made me think about how I could encourage creativity within my classroom.

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This is a great tool and easy to use. You could use it to allow students to present information in a new way. For example:

- English - develop a modern day interpretation from a scene in Hamlet.
- Geography - produce a show detailing a field trip with findings.
- Science - a show to talk through an experimentation.
- History - a show to give a summary of the causes of an event in history and the consequences.
- Food Technology - details of how food hygiene in the kitchen.
- Economics - theory explained in pictures.
- Religious Education - an overview of a religion that details important facts.

Below are some examples of what can be done with Photo Story. If you search on Google Videos or YouTube you can find lots more examples of what is possible.

Here is a video tutorial that explains how to use Photo Story 3:

Click Here for another Video Tutorial for Photo Story 3. And you can download it free over at Microsoft!

I found this video sometime ago.  It goes through lots of snippits where ICT has been used in the classroom.  I have used it during whole school and deaprtment insets to get the ball rolling.

An interesting video that shows how students are far different from the way we were!  We really need to think about our teaching and the environment we offer our students to learn they fundamentally operate differently.  It is this that we need to grapple with when we look at implementing eLearning as part of a blended approach to education.

We thought this post would be a great way to outline how important it is for us as teachers to think about the sort of world our students are going to enter when they leave school. The changing landscape of the world means that we must look at how we teach.

If we consider the world our students live in and consider the classroom we teach them in, they quite literally are stepping back in time in many of our classrooms. Incorporating eLearning into our teaching is something we must ensure we do with urgency!