Category Archives: Kindle

My year 8 classes are doing project work for Term 6. This feeds into a New Year’s Resolution from last September, to allow something like the 20% time Google offers its staff. The students can pick any topic they like … Continue reading →

I finally got round to using these for the purpose I intended today: as a vehicle for giving worksheets to KS3. Year 9 are completing an assessment entitled, “Who was responsible for the death of JFK?” and they have been … Continue reading →

(With apologies to my year 11s – here is a post I wrote with them in March and never finished!) Today I used my History lesson with year 11 to put the revision guide onto the Kindles and begin working … Continue reading →

Over the holidays I used my own Kindle to help me with the year 13 coursework drafts that have been steadily dribbling in. I converted them to PDF and emailed them to my Kindle over my home WiFi, so I … Continue reading →

In the first instance I’m using the Kindles with my year 11 class. My year 11s being generally trustworthy, and also extremely flattered to be given the chance to try the Kindles first, I gave them two hours to play … Continue reading →

In the autumn term I started to think about Kindles in the classroom. I was getting tired of photocopying the same sheets every year and having them ripped, graffitied or thrown away by the students using them. If I had … Continue reading →