For the skeletons presentation
Additional content to accompany Penny Griffiths' Skeletons presentation
Teachmeet Roehampton
Some final pictures of the first Roehampton Teachmeet
Thank you all for attending - see you at the next one!
Raphael Sarker - The School as Spaceship
Raphael draws parallels between Star Trek and the classroom in a 7 minute presentation that touches on aspects of teacher training and space travel
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Higher quality video was uploaded to youtube at
Raphael is a trainee teacher at Roehampton university, who is interested in Game-based learning (and Star Trek obviously)
He tweets as @raphaelsarker on twitter
Bev Evans - Animal Magic
Bev shows us in just over 2 minutes a little magic you can find online involving animals and gives some great examples of where you can use a site called Build your wild self in your classroom. If you want to build your wild self too, check out the site at http://www.buildyourwildself.com/
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Bev tweets as @bevevans22 and can also be found at http://technostories.wordpress.com/
Dan Bowen - Literacy, Google Maps and all that Jazz
Dan Bowen, @dan_bowen on Twitter tells us about the wonders of, among other things, Google Maps in 2 minutes
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Penny Griffiths - Skeletons and a scale
Penny Griffiths, a STEM ambassador, talks about the perils of scaling and how students can create scale models in paper
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Paul Hutson - Kidsmeet
Paul Hutson, co-creator of NightZookeeper who tweets as @nightzookeeper gives us a 2 minute introduction to the childrens version of Teachmeet, called kidsmeet.
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More details of kidsmeet can be found on their site at http://www.kidsmeet.org.uk/ and Pauls other project, Nightzookeeper is at http://www.nightzookeeper.com/
Bill Mitchell - 7 minutes on teaching 2nd years 3D Java programming at Surrey University
Bill Mitchell of the BCS tells us about 3D Java for 2nd year students at Surrey University
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David Kempster - Mobile devices for assessment
David Kempster, @kempsterD on Twitter, talks about how the iPad has changed his classroom
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Ali Messer - 7 minutes on using Wikipedia to teach history. Yes. Wikipedia. Really.
Ali Messer is a Senior Lecturer and History subject co-ordinator at Roehampton University. In 7 minutes she covers how Wikipedia can be used to teach history.
Ali tweets as @freereed59
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