I’ll be giving a talk at #BETT2023 on the Newline Interactive stand NL31 Thurs 30th 10.30am. I’ll be sharing some of my favourite web tools for teachers. I’ll also be at Teachmeet BETT on the Thursday evening, talking about ChatGPT. Hope to see you there! BETT 2023 Presentations The Whiteboard Blog - Education, Technology and Science CPD and Support ..read more

As a teacher, you’re constantly looking for ways to improve your workflow and engage your students. ChatGPT is a cutting-edge language model that can assist teachers in various tasks, from generating lesson plans to answering student queries. Developed by OpenAI, ChatGPT is one of the most advanced language models available today, capable of understanding complex […] Speed Up Your Lesson Planning with ChatGPT: Crafting the Perfect Prompt The Whiteboard Blog - Education, Technology and Science CPD and Support ..read more

Exam revision can be tough for both students and teachers. But don’t panic because there are loads of awesome websites out there that can make it a little bit easier. Here are 10 useful websites that teachers can use with their students to support exam revision: Disclaimer: I asked ChatGPT to write me a blog […] 10 Websites to Crush Exam Revision: A Teacher’s Guide The Whiteboard Blog - Education, Technology and Science CPD and Support ..read more

If, like me, you’re a big fan of Google Jamboard, you’ll be interested to know that there are a tonne of Jamboard templates available on Canva. Most are free, but a few are only available for Pro members. To find them, just search within Canva for “jamboard” and you’ll find them. Currently, there’s 180 available. […] Find Free Jamboard Templates on Canva The Whiteboard Blog - Education, Technology and Science CPD and Support ..read more

Here’s a great way to create a quiz to accompany a YouTube video, using ChatGPT to speed up the question-creation process. You could play the video in class then run the quiz, or you could set this as a homework activity within Kahoot for the students to access at home. Find a video you want […] Turn a YouTube Video into a Kahoot Quiz using ChatGPT The Whiteboard Blog - Education, Technology and Science CPD and Support ..read more

Here’s a cautionary tale about some of the limitations of ChatGPT right now. If you ask it to generate a list of suggested articles or books you should go and read on a particular topic, you’re likely to get a list of made-up titles. It would be my dream of a research sidekick. You’d want […] Don’t Trust ChatGPT for Academic Research (yet) The Whiteboard Blog - Education, Technology and Science CPD and Support ..read more

Chat GPT has become an incredibly hot topic recently. It’s an amazing tool that can be used by teachers, but which also has huge implications for all of us in education. So here’s a quick guide to how to use ChatGPT for teachers. Firstly, for those who haven’t heard of it before I asked chat […] A Teacher’s Guide to Chat GPT The Whiteboard Blog - Education, Technology and Science CPD and Support ..read more

Here’s the third video in my series of Scratch Tutorials. In this video we’ll look at where to find the pen tools in scratch 3.0 and how to use them to draw shapes. How to mimic a floor roamer/turtle in Logo to produce simple 2D shapes. How to use the repeat blocks to simplify the […] Scratch Tutorial: Using the Pen Commands The Whiteboard Blog - Education, Technology and Science CPD and Support ..read more

Here’s part 2 of a series of Scratch tutorial videos which will cover some of the basic features of Scratch for beginners. In this video, I’ll cover how to make a sprite move on the screen when you’re using an iPad and can’t use arrow keys. This includes how to set up buttons and make […] Scratch Tutorial: Move a Sprite on an iPad The Whiteboard Blog - Education, Technology and Science CPD and Support ..read more

Here’s part 1 of a series of Scratch tutorial videos which will cover some of the basic features of Scratch for beginners. In this video, I’ll take a look at how to add a sprite and a background, then how to move that sprite around the screen using the arrow keys on the keyboard. I’ll […] Scratch Tutorial: Make a Sprite Move with Cursor Keys The Whiteboard Blog - Education, Technology and Science CPD and Support ..read more