If I had to name my top resources of all time, Audacity would have to be somewhere near the top.
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Mobile telephones are banned in my school.
I understand why. They can get broken, stolen, be used for bullying, disrupting lessons, etc, and if a student doesn't have the "right phone" then that can be a basis for bullying, too.

Two weeks ago, I was teaching a Year 11 GCSE French class when I noticed one of the students using a mobile 'phone.
I asked her what she was doing.
She replied, "I'm using "www.wordreference.com" to look up a word I can't find in the dictionary."
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Whilst at the MFL Show and Tell, Joe Dale told us about Songsmith (I'd read his blogpost about it before but I'm an Auditory / Kinaesthetic learner...) and was filled with possibilities and ideas. I couldn't wait to find

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I had an impromptu lesson in our ICT suite a couple of weeks ago with my Year 7 class so decided to give Go Animate a go. I'd wanted to use if many times over the last few years but never quite had the opportunity - I think it may even have been blocked for a while - so was

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Just a really quick post to let everyone know that, after the huge success of the last TeachMeetNE, Chris Harte has organised another on. This one will be festive affair, held on the 2nd December at the Tyneside Cinema from… Continue