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…
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…
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…