Age: 10 – 12 yrs or older Overview Popplet is a web tool for mind mapping. Easy to use, you just have to double-click to create “boxes” where you can insert text, images or videos and build information flows – connections between the “boxes”. This collaborative tool has the plus of allowing to create tags Full Article…
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Little screen
Ages: 10 to 19 Overview Turn the stories created by students from the study of a literary book into an animated video using their mobile phones. The Little Screen (“Telinha do Cinema”) is a Brazilian project, which aims to encourage the integration of mobile technologies, in particular mobile phone, in the classroom. In this project, Full Article…
More efficient searching using 3 x 3 Links
Dan Roberts shared the way he uses 3x3Links - a handy online tool that allows you to set up your own shareable internet start page containing whatever websites you choose. All you need is a Google account to automatically sign in. One of the tricky things about asking students to research topics on the internet is that many Full Article…
Essay Map
Another gem from Dan Roberts who says “I’ve only just started using Essay Map in the classroom and already I love it. Many of the students I teach find it difficult to write and structure an essay; actually even I do. Essay Map is a brilliant tool which works as an interactive graphic organiser that walks you through Full Article…
10 x 10 – current affairs in the classroom
Great idea from Dan Roberts …. The 10×10 website presents the words and images that are trending on news sites across the world in real time. Every hour of every day the site collects the most popular 100 words and 100 images based on feeds from the likes of ABC, Reuters and the BBC. These words and Full Article…
Mapping human rights
Age group: 12 to 15 Overview myHistro is an online tool that allows us to create timelines based on maps, which can include text, images and video. It’s online, free, simple and fun to use! By creating timelines, students can organize and explain events in a dynamic and creative way. In this activity we ask Full Article…
Telling, Retelling and Recreating
Age: 8 – 12 yrs Overview The PhotoStory is a free software from Microsoft that allows you to make videos from a collection of images, to which you can add sound (narration, music) and motion (effects and transitions). It is an excellent tool for working with young children for being very easy to use. The Full Article…
Put your writer hat on!
Age: 9 -12 yrs Overview The Google Docs/Drive, a sharing and collective writing space is a great tool to promote writing skills. The collaborative construction of text allows reflection on the writing process, because it happens in interaction with peers and with the teacher. The ease of building and reformulating the text also helps the Full Article…
