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About timthelibrarian

Tim Harwood is a Teacher Librarian and eLearning enthusiast.

Finding video resources online

Posted on 11/10/2011 by timthelibrarian

For online educational video resources (and clips of people falling over) you can’t beat YouTube. I know there are lots of other sources like Vimeo, TeacherTube and so on but this post is unapologetically YouTube biased. Of course, the easiest way … Continue reading →

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Term Planners on eWS

Posted on 10/10/2011 by timthelibrarian

Don’t forget you can write and submit your term planners through eWorkSpace! If you are having trouble working out how to do it, check out this post or come and talk to me about it directly.

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Conducting research online

Posted on 20/09/2011 by timthelibrarian

Whether it is in the primary or secondary classroom, conducting a successful research activity for our students depends on the way that we manage the various elements of research in our classes. This begins by creating tasks that are open-ended, introducing … Continue reading →

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Sharing Links – Sqworl

Posted on 19/09/2011 by timthelibrarian

Sharing links with our students can be a real challenge. You can shorten long URLs using sites like bitly and TinyURL, if you have a class blog you can put your links on there (eWS allows you to put URLs in the … Continue reading →

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YouTube: AitkenOnline

Posted on 15/09/2011 by timthelibrarian

Aitken College on YouTube Aitken College has a YouTube channel!!! How do I get there? To access the channel, go to the following URL: http://www.youtube.com/aitkenonline Contributing to the channel If you have anything that you would like me to publish … Continue reading →

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Creating Curriculum Maps in eWorkSpace

Posted on 13/09/2011 by timthelibrarian

If you are looking for a whizzbang way to do your Curriculum Maps, do them in eWorkSpace. Why would I want to do that? By creating your Curriculum Map in eWorkSpace you have all the fields already worked out for you … Continue reading →

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Sharing documents

Posted on 13/09/2011 by timthelibrarian

Our computer network allows us to share documents more easily than ever before. This is because of innovations on the web and also the way that documents are created using applications such as Word. If you are interested in creating documents for sharing, … Continue reading →

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Online Whiteboards

Posted on 13/09/2011 by timthelibrarian

An Online Whiteboard can be used as a collaborative space for your class. By accessing the whiteboard using a desktop or notebook, students and their teacher can create and work on this shared document in the whiteboard format. Once you … Continue reading →

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Staff ICT Check-up Sign Up Sheet

Posted on 06/09/2011 by timthelibrarian

Sign up for your ICT check up without leaving your office! Just click this link, check your timetable, put your name next to the time that you want and hit save.

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Yet more Excel stuff

Posted on 05/09/2011 by timthelibrarian

…and I have added a new section to the top of the post ‘How to basically function using Excel‘ on how to get Excel to show those leading zeros that disappear from the front of student numbers and so on.

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