Experienced teacher and tech visionary Dan Roberts has just come up with another practical ICT ideas to use in the classroom. This week he’s discovered a tool which allows you to create charts and diagrams to share online. If you want to draw a flow chart or other special diagram then Gliffy is a great tool for 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…
Start an Argument…
amap is a great resource for instigating discussion. Follow the on-screen instructions to create an interactive mind map. Click on Reply to respond to a discussion (you’ll need to delete previous comments). Here’s an example designed for teaching How Science Works, but it is possible to use the software for the teaching of all topics Full Article…
Quick Quizzes
More from Dan Roberts… Quizlet is a free website where you can create your own quizzes to help with revision. You can either create your own resources from scratch, or you can browse the resources, already created and ordered by topic, and let other people do the hard work for you. To give you an idea Full Article…
Mux for converting video
www.mux.am Mux is an excellent video conversion/sharing site that lets you enter in the URL of a video clip (or its location on your hard drive) and specify what format you’d like to receive the video in (iPod, PSP, DivX, MPEG-4, and lots more). Give it a few minutes to work its magic, and Mux Full Article…
Scrap blog
www.scrapblog.com Want to do more with your pics than just dump them online? Scrapblog lets you grab your photos from Flickr, MySpace, Facebook, Picasa, and many more photo sites, and use them to construct cool (and free) multimedia scrapbooks. You can also use video in your scrapbooks, and the interface is very easy to use. Full Article…