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…
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…
I want to know what you did last summer…
I have my students create scrapbooks in English about a week in their life or about what they did in their holidays. They really enjoy it and the results are often great. Prezi now offers a template for a digital scrapbook (Create a Prezi Scrapbook) and it looks really promising. The only drawback is the 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…
Newspaper Club
I’ve come across this website (http://www.newspaperclub.com) and I think this can be used really well in class. You have to create an account, however, you only have to use an e-mail address and a password. Then you can use their layout tool to create a newspaper and export it as a pdf for free. If you Full Article…
My technology book
In each activity the pupils learn about technical principles like gear and belt drive systems, electrical circuits, energy, textiles technology, food technology…After a technical activity the students make a poster (Glogster), a digital book (Storybird) with the knowledge that they have constructed about that subject. In the next activity they can look up in that Full Article…