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Dissecting an article

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…

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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…

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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…

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