30 apps in 7 minutesGaragebandPhotoshop express DJ mixerVirtuosoRebirthPrezi viewerDragon DictationQwikiGoogle EarthTwitterIplayerImdbBBC newsFood tech gamesYouTubeKindleiBooksPhotoboothColoureffectsAurasmaTime 2Ted talksGroovemakerLoopJClassicalGuardian eyewitness photosRj voyagerTap the frogiMovie
Reading – lots of free books! Buying is cheaper too.Definitions – will pop up at top of the screen. Encourages learning of new words.Built in dictionaryText-to-speech – kindle will read out book to you.Revision Guides Instead of a Textbook – make your ownStoring Research – convert word files to PDF…
100 Word ChallengeA word or picture is given as a prompt and students are given the task of producing a piece of creating writing using this prompt in 100 words. A different prompt each week. If you enter you must read another post. Looking for more entrants…particularly secondary pupils!
Tagxedo ArtYou can put in words and it will create a piece of art with those words. The more the word appears the bigger the word will be in the artwork. You can change the shape of the picture the words appear in. Great for poetry, key words…etc
2 ideas for infantsinfant encyclopaedia – amazing amount of information covering various primary topics. TES Iboard
Puppet Pals HDPut in your own backgrounds and characters and create animations for plenaries, covering the topic from the lesson. Great fun !
Scratch softwareAnimation type programme – creating animation through code. Appealing to students, very colourful. Blocks of code can be dragged and dropped. Useful for teaching logic, maths, storytelling. Completely free and lots of support for users and students.
A few ideas for the classroomGoogle sites – creating websitesOnline jigsaws – can import any image and things can be dragged into place. Great for starters!World news site – picks out today’s world news from a variety of different sites. What is important news for each country?Google-a-day – gives a…
Virtual presentation of 7 ideas in 7 minutes1 primaryschool.com/avatars – make your own characters2 isle of tune – creating music through cars moving on a road around obstacles3 physicsgames.net 4 wordsearchmaker.net5 ideas to inspire – a range of ideas shared, interesting ways to use hardware and software6 under ten minutes.com7…
Gifted and TalentedDon’t be up the front as a teacher… Get the students in charge of their lessons. Thinking about how they learn and the language of learning. Getting students to believe in themselves. Getting gifted and talented to work harder too. It’s good to make mistakes, try the harder…
Maths Memory Game – you can write in your own facts! Great for revision on any topic or subject!
Dimensions websiteGoogle – how big really. Shows different events based on your area. E.g oil spills, floods, space, war on terror, all based on your area.
Home learning on Twitter – hash tags for each year group. Excellent for parents, being able to check what is set. Sharing information on field trips. Revision tips and advice for Year 11. Twitter with discussions in class using hash tags. Linking in sites… Gets others joining in, making conversation…
Creating objects by adding material. Accessible machines for schools when considering price. Mechanical parts can be made as well as DT based projects by students, products and prototypes, mathematical models, iPhone stands, iPhone sat nav holders for bikes (gcse project). http://rapman-education.posterous.com/
Zoe Elder introduced Matthew McFall as an ‘agent of wonder’. Matthew spoke about how you can connect wonder and learning. We need to ask our students what makes them wonder… Matthew has recently been working on learning with teachers, focusing on modular learning through a maze. Important that something could…
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via klowdz.com Check this awesome inspirational site. Great for practising basic graphics skills, inspiring your mind and can easily see it being a fantastic site for starters or even plenaries. Check it out. Impressive! via @andyhutt
via ipadsforeducation.vic.edu.au Really interesting look (filled with some cool resources too) about an iPad 1:1 trial in Victoria, Australia. Well worth checking!!
So I have had my teacher iPad for 2 weeks now and you’ve seen one post already. That was written during the ½ term break, without having had the ability to really discuss the apps and usability in terms of real experience with students. Having been back at school now…
Amaze Your Education Colleagues This fine academic tool was designed to assist in the writing of reports, grant applications, and other documents related to public schools. I believe that it will be particularly useful for people involved in writing reports for WASC accreditation. Amaze your colleagues with finely crafted phrases…
Introduction I am very fortunate to work in a school with a forward thinking leadership team which have me involved in an iPad project at Clevedon School where I work. Currently SLT members and some interested teachers including me have been given iPads in order to trial their use in…
Check out this website I found at studyblue.com Ok – so you love Evernote? You use it to take photos of evidence. You use it to write notes in class to keep them organised? You sync it between home, smartphone, ipad, home device etc etc? With StudyBlue, what you can…
via bbc.co.uk Have you got that technological entrepreneurial spirit?
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