One of our favourite blogs that we read regularly is primary ICT teacher Simon Mills’ – ICT Inspirations: Reflections and notes from the pen of a primary school ICT subject leader.  Simon has written a great post on the use of Textease Branch CT in a recent Y3 Maths lesson, which may give you some ideas on using this tool in your own classroom.  Take a look at how Simon’s class used Branch to analyse shapes at:

http://twowhizzy.blogspot.com/2008/06/softease-branch-y3-and-properties-of.html

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Conwy Education Services have provided every Primary and Special school within the Council with a site licence of Textease Studio CT, Timeline and Ideas Map , eleven tools in total. This will enable the schools to better meet the guidelines within the new Welsh Curriculum that comes into force in September 2008. Furthermore, the partnership agreement with Softease enables a Welsh version to be released later in the year.  

Part of the agreement will allow all Conwy children to use the software at home empowering them to use thee tools effortlessly for cross curricular activities. 

All schools were invited to see Doug Dickinson inspire them by demonstrating the power of these tools at the Venue Cymru in Llandudno on Friday 7^th March. 

This is an exciting project with further training planned to help the schools familiarize themselves with the whole suit of tools that they now have.�

If you use Textease Studio CT you can discover a wealth of fantastic Christmas activities on the Kent NGFL Website.  These include a compliation of jokes and Christmas Facts from the excellent Woodland School site, details (and templates) of how to create an Advent Calendar, a creatable interactive Nativity scene and many more ideas to adopt, adapt and then develop!

This is the last of Doug Dickinson’s recent Textease CT CPD sessions in South Gloucestershire - comments for which can be seen here.

Highlights include going on a multi-modal bear hunt, animating the moon around the Earth (anti-clockwise of course!) , kinetic calligrams and showing how to easily create videos and put them on a Textease page.

But perhaps the real point to take-away is the following little secret…

Did you notice just how easy it was for Doug using Textease CT on the interactive whiteboard??