LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the end of this post you will be able to: Say what a voicethread is Create a digital conversation Use voicethreads in your teaching DIGITAL DIALOGUE Digital dialogue is part of everyday life for today’s students. It started with e-mail and text messaging on mobile phones and progressed to instant messaging, Skype, Full Article…
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Makey Makey
Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum, from the Lifelong Kindergarten Media Lab in MIT, make the best fun tech-toys ever. Our favourite is Makey Makey, a credit card sized PCB which allows you to control the bottom 8 keys on your keyboard plus the arrow keys by attaching almost anything which conducts electricity to your Full Article…
Buying in Moodle
As a primary school governor, one of the issues I have been wrestling is the installation of Moodle in the school. Personally, I would consign all VLE/LCMS to the bin in favour of a more eclectic mix-and-match arrangement of social software that we can change whenever the mood takes us. Nevertheless, after a hard sell Full Article…
Photopeach – presentations with added value
Teacher Dan Roberts shares another practical ICT idea to use in the classroom. Photopeach allows you to create your own fabulous photo slideshows. You can upload your own photos to the site, add text, then select your own backing track and add a few funky transitions. I showed Photopeach to my class and set them a 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…
Gliffy
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…
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