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		<title>Moving.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have migrated my blog to www.robertfdrummond.com You will find all new posts there and all of the content which is found here will  also be  found at that website. I will post  &#8217;How to migrate to a self-host&#8217; on the new site shortly. Robert.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertdrummond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10851799&amp;post=262&amp;subd=robertdrummond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Low-tech mental oral starter 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 13:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another popular low-tech starter is a version of the memory game &#8216;I went shopping.&#8217; In the maths version children take it in turns to say &#8216;I went shopping with £x.xx and I bought something (let the children choose, it adds to the fun) that cost £x.xx, what change should I get.&#8217; This activity lends itself [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertdrummond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10851799&amp;post=244&amp;subd=robertdrummond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Low-tech mental oral starter!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a quick post. I got reminded listening to my partner&#8217;s daughter this evening that the most interesting and effective things in teaching can also be the simplest. Her maths teacher uses a variation of the &#8217;11&#8242; game to practice counting down, through hundred barriers.  To play you would stand up all the class and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertdrummond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10851799&amp;post=242&amp;subd=robertdrummond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>About Dropbox.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:09:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online/cloud storage is becoming more popular with many services available, to store and sync my documents I have been using dropbox for around 4 months now and find it&#8217;s a great service which has never once failed. I discovered dropbox via my Personal Learning Group on twitter. Basically, Dropbox is a web based storage facility [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertdrummond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10851799&amp;post=239&amp;subd=robertdrummond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using tutpup in my classroom.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 09:42:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was introduced to Tutpup through Year Six Teacher&#8217;s Blog in this article. It is an online mental maths and spelling game in which the children play against children around the world, in realtime. It is also free. To begin, the teacher needs to sign up first as&#8230; a teacher. Once this is done you can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertdrummond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10851799&amp;post=225&amp;subd=robertdrummond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Online quiz making program &#8211; ProProfs.</title>
		<link>http://robertdrummond.wordpress.com/2010/02/23/online-quiz-making-program-proprofs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:57:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was teaching a lesson on Lent to my class, and was looking for an approach which I thought would motivate the class. I&#8217;m a bit of a fan of quizzes and thought the children might like to create their own quiz/comprehension activity based around a non-fiction text about Lent. I created a text using [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertdrummond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10851799&amp;post=223&amp;subd=robertdrummond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Web 2.0 Week 4/5</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:02:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was also a 3-day week in our authority, this being our spring half-term week. Despite this we had a busy time.  I did an update of my class&#8217;s blog page with 3 new stories based loosely on some Burns&#8217; poems which an excellent group called Oor Rabbie came in and worked on with my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertdrummond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10851799&amp;post=219&amp;subd=robertdrummond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Drench.</title>
		<link>http://robertdrummond.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/drench/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A new game which I&#8217;ve introduced to my class is drench.  I&#8217;m not sure where how I found the game, I thought it was via the Guardian Technology Pages but it was actually via a comment on their report on &#8216;Games to relax you&#8217;. The game involves the player selecting one of 6 colours and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertdrummond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10851799&amp;post=209&amp;subd=robertdrummond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using physicsgames.net for problem solving.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Physics games is a site I use with my class to develop thinking skills. It is a site which contains hundreds of free games which, as the name suggests have some degree of physics in them. This doesn&#8217;t mean that they are complex science games. The science involved is often simple use of gravity, although [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertdrummond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10851799&amp;post=198&amp;subd=robertdrummond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Delicious Bookmarking</title>
		<link>http://robertdrummond.wordpress.com/2010/02/12/delicious-bookmarking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across the delicious bookmarking site a few years ago, probably through reading the Guardian&#8217;s Technology pull out on a Thursday. (Sadly this is now only available online). I signed up for an account, saved a few bookmarks into it and probably didn&#8217;t really see the point. In the last couple of months I&#8217;ve [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=robertdrummond.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10851799&amp;post=191&amp;subd=robertdrummond&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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