Extract from Ewan McIntosh’s blog – add your best use for a visualiser and let’s try and bring that visualiser home to a Havering school! 

http://edu.blogs.com/edublogs/2008/05/how-would-you-u.html

“…And the best suggestion on how to use it over the next week will get one. On my continuing posts from last week’s adventures, I must let you know about something I won.

I never win anything, so I was quite excited to win one of the new generation of visualisers at the TeachMeetcharity raffle, courtesy of the Visualiser Forum, represented by Dave Smith. You know, the ones you see in lecture halls and being used by Edward de Bono during his talks.

Basically, though, it’s sitting in London, waiting for a home with someone who would use it far more frequently and far better than I would. I want to give it away. To know who would use it best, I’d like to open up the opportunity to my blog reading colleagues in the UK (simply for ease of getting hold of the thing) to write a quick comment on this post telling me how on earth you would put this visualiser to use in your context. Feel free to email the blog post address to colleagues and put in a group effort, on several different comments. The best one – for me – wins.

If you want some ideas you might want to check out the new Visualiser Forum blog, a community blog pulling together ideas from kinds of disciplines and levels. Currently, the large pristine box is sitting in an office just off London’s Central Line and, ideally, you would be able to pick it up from there. In the meantime, tell me what you would do with this.”

For the Redbridge view on visualisers click on http://redbridgeprimaryit.blogspot.com/2008/05/visualers-get-them-out-of-closet-or.html