Our world is changing, it is becoming flatter and appears to be metaphorically shrinking. Technology has allowed us to communicate across borders and countries with…
Category: Web 2.0 tools
My Research: iPads and Oral Language development: presented on Emaze
Posted in About Me, Literacy, Research and Readings, Teacher Resources, and Web 2.0 tools
I found this new amazing presentation tool Emaze, it is similar to Prezi (it zooms and pans), but in terms of creating a presentation I…
Scratch: Mitchell’s Post
Posted in Classroom, Creating, General, Literacy, Problem Solving, Teacher Resources, and Web 2.0 tools
Today’s post has been written by my son Mitchell, who discovered scratch and then created his own game. Hi Everyone, My name is Mitchell, for my…
Wideo: Make online animated videos
Posted in Classroom, General, History, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Maths, Teacher Resources, and Web 2.0 tools
Hi everyone, I was looking this morning and found this web based animated video creation site. I have been playing with the tool and created…
Stixy colloboration board
Posted in Classroom, General, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, and Web 2.0 tools
I posted previously about a website called Wall Wisher where you can add videos, text and pictures onto a virtual pinboard This tool stixty is similar…
Newspaper Creators
Posted in Character Development, Classroom, Comprehension, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Reading, Speaking and Listening, Spelling, Web 2.0 tools, and Writing
Yesterday I attended and presented at a very interesting discussion surrounding innovations in teaching and learning in higher education. It was a great day with lots of sharing of ideas. One of the discussions surrounded…
Sploder: Game Creation
Posted in Classroom, Creating, Featured, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Maths, Problem Solving, Speaking and Listening, Web 2.0 tools, and Writing
http://www.sploder.com/ Following on from yesterdays post about the benefits of game creation for learning, here is another great website. This is another website…
Cartoon network: Create your own Game
Posted in Chance and Data, Classroom, Creating, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Maths, Problem Solving, Speaking and Listening, Web 2.0 tools, and Writing
This website allows the children to plan and create their own game based on star wars the clone wars. It is fairly easy to navigate…
Websites to create infographics
Posted in Character Development, Classroom, General, Literacy, Maths, Reading, Teacher Resources, Web 2.0 tools, and Writing
Hi everyone, I hope that you all had a great Easter ! I have been away camping hence my absence for a week! I posted about infographics…
What in the world is an infographic
Posted in Classroom, General, Humanities/ Topics, Literacy, Maths, Teacher Resources, and Web 2.0 tools
An infographic, is a visual way to present ideas and data. There are lots of tools on the web which are very easy to use.…
ThingLink – Online interactive pictures
Posted in Classroom, Literacy, Reading, Web 2.0 tools, Web tools, and Writing
Thinglink is incredibly easy to use. If you haven’t used it yet in the classroom , I suggest you give it a go. http://www.thinglink.com/. Thingling is like a virtual pinboard. You…
Digital Citizenship: Free images you can use in the classroom
Posted in Classroom, General, and Web 2.0 tools
The internet is a huge web filled with massive amounts of information in all forms, videos, images and text. I believe very strongly that we need to…
Padlet online multimedia pin board
Posted in Classroom, Literacy, Maths, and Web 2.0 tools
Padlet http://padlet.com Wall Wisher is a free online pin board which allows all forms of mulitmedia to be posted. (video, audio, pics, Web Links). It…
You are your words website: textual pictures
Posted in Classroom, Literacy, and Web 2.0 tools
http://www.youareyourwords.com/ This site allows you to upload any picture, add text and voila out comes a picture with the text. The one drawback I found was the…
Dropbox – access your work anywhere!
Posted in Classroom, Teacher Resources, Web 2.0 tools, and Web tools
Have you ever got to school and thought “ohhh no the file I need is on my computer at home”. Well with Drop Box all…