Little Bit About the Classroom Displays Blog
The blog has been created to explore and celebrate the use of displays in classrooms all over the world. As well as sharing ideas and best practice I hope that by looking at, commenting on and tagging each other’s displays we can investigate what works and doesn’t work in the classroom and explore some of the reasons.
You can listen to a podcast with David Noble (Booruch) where I explain all this in more detail.
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A Little Bit About Me
I am Linda Hartley and I am the author of this blog. I am based in London and work on various educational projects including writing magazine articles, professional development and training with Teaching Assistants and other school staff.
I worked as a TA and Research Assistant in a Primary School for many years. As a research assistant I worked in a networked learning community with 5 other schools providing support for their action research projects. I was also the school Well Being Facilitator and worked with staff at all levels to innovate and co-ordinate change processes.
I achieved First in a workplace action research based, online degree from Anglia Ruskin Universtity ( BA(Hons) Learning, Technology and Research), partly based on the work I did for this blog.
I’m interested in blogs, wikis and social software in educational professional development, both formal and informal.
I also blog about informal learning, internet technology and action research at Acting to Improve . My personal blog is at Linda M Hartley
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mailto:Linda. Hartley@gmail.com.
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#1 by Patricia Hayman on March 28, 2007 - 6:47 pm
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Hi linda
Congratulation on your degree…I’m in the process of veiwing web page.
#2 by Samuel on April 24, 2007 - 11:37 pm
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Absolutely brill blog! Keep up the great work
#3 by Yang on May 7, 2007 - 1:41 pm
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Hey Linda: i have sent you an email. Hope to hear from you soon.
#4 by Diane Reynolds on October 27, 2007 - 9:13 am
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Thank you very much for sharing your blog Linda and thank you to everyone who has contributed to such a wonderful resource. I have recently started a blog for trainee teachers in London where I share my expertise in ICT. My last session is based on the relevance of Web 2.0 technology in the classroom. It was completely new to them and its potential. I am also going to start researching for my dissertation on the same theme too.
I am going to link your site to my blog so that these trainees know about this blog too.
My blog is at http://ictforteachers.edublogs.org/ Please come over everyone and see if it could be useful to you or anyone else you know.
Regards
Diane Reynolds-Primary School Teacher, ICT Coordinator, Hackney,London.
#5 by Linda on October 27, 2007 - 10:03 am
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Hi Diane,
and I look forward to seeing more about your work with trainee teachers. I’m doing some TA training at the moment and putting resources online too at Usefulwiki
I’m glad you like the blog and that you are going to link to it. How about joining the Flickr group?
Your blog has some good resources
If you are only in Hackney perhaps we should get together some time as I live in London now.
Drop me a line:
Linda.Hartley@gmail.com.
#6 by pima on November 12, 2007 - 12:38 pm
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Hi Diane.. it is a great blog you have, it’s very informative and a learned a lot from your blog. Come visit my blog at; funteachers.multiply.com
#7 by Linda on November 12, 2007 - 1:40 pm
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Hi Pima
I’m glad you find the blog useful. I had a good look round your site. Your anti-bullying breakfast meeting looked fun and I loved Year 1’s Assembly video
#8 by Lynn on January 7, 2008 - 10:09 pm
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where can i find some good templates for letters when doing displays. thanks
#9 by Linda on January 9, 2008 - 12:37 pm
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Hi Lynn,
Here are a few ideas:
Tricky question. I use some old wooden ones that I’ve had for about 20 years
For wooden ones:
Search ebay for starters – wooden letters last forever so people do sell them off.
Buy some online – tryBright Ideas
Your school should be able to order them through one of the catalogues if you are in the UK.
Ask other teachers – they often have a set tucked away.
If you are buying try to get the Sassoon font. It always looks good on displays.
Alternatively – make a set of your own and laminate them. Find a font you like, print it out at the right size then photocopy onto card. Cut them out and to ensure long life, laminate. I’ve got a pdf somewhere… I’ll put it online and link to here in the next week or so..
Finally consider using printed titles instead. Faster, easier and often looks neater.
#10 by Jason Young on April 6, 2008 - 1:53 pm
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Hello. Nice blog and pictures. Very informative. I’m inspired to have regular group displays for my kids, too. If you ever come around to the Philippines, look us up.
Cheers,
#11 by Linda on April 6, 2008 - 3:14 pm
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Thanks Jason
I’d love to visit. Don’t forget to take some photos of those displays and add them to the Flickr group!
#12 by bushra on June 15, 2008 - 10:09 am
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hello….nie blog and pictures. would like to visit again..
#13 by Carolina on October 18, 2008 - 3:05 am
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Hi,
I absolutely love your site. I get a lot of ideas from it!
I love useful teaching sites, that’s why I select only the best links for publishing them on my site.
Your blog is on my current news at my website right now.
I hope that’s ok with you.
Congrats again!
#14 by Evelyn Saenz on May 8, 2009 - 9:13 pm
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Thank you for your kind comments on my Interactive Bulletin Boards page and for allowing me to use your photo of Pirate Pete’s Place Value.
I hope that you don’t mind that I have added an RSS Feed connecting this blog to my webpage: Interactive Bulletin Boards.
#15 by Linda on May 9, 2009 - 9:21 pm
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That’s fine Evelyn, I’m glad you like the blog so much. Your pages are great too.
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#16 by kandee lacey on November 30, 2009 - 4:54 pm
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Can I get a copy of the snowdude ?
#17 by Linda on November 30, 2009 - 5:48 pm
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You can get The Snow Dude in the UK from Amazon
Snow Dude
and in the US