Ideas for ICT

Online stories

Online stories for all ages.

How to wiki

http://how2doit.wikispaces.com/

How to help sheets for ict programs eg photo story, voice thread, wiki

Tag Galaxy

Tag Galaxy
is a very nice application that uses Papervision3D to explore Flickr photos via virtual planetary systems.




You enter a tag, and the related galaxy appears on screen. Each planet contains the pictures of a certain tag, and when you click on them, the images are placed on a 3D rotating globe.

Answergarden: Thinking Tools we are using...

Answergarden: Thinking Tools we are using...: "Answergarden: Thinking Tools we are using..."

Inteface magazine online

Interface: A great place to find some ideas for ICT. Teacher blogs may give you some ideas on how to use your blog


This Wall is from educamp and hs some great ideas. Cat there is ne on cyber safety.

Answer Garden: Online brainstorming or use it as a guestbook on your blog

Ted -

Ken Robinson speaking on creativityclick here

Pdf to Word for editing

Now you can convert a pdf file to a Word document.

Click here to download.

Voice Thread

Here is a page full of ideas and help sheets for using voice thread in the classroom.

Click here

Some more Junior and Senior Ideas for Voice Thread

Sentence structure games

Sentence Structure Games

Assessment videos

Click here

New Designs for your Blog

You no longer need to go to Cutest Blog on the Block to get interesting backgrounds as Blogger now have their own.
Just go to Design - New Template Designer. Once you have your template you can go down to background and change Background image. have a play around in there cos you can change colours, fonts etc.

Disc Clean up and Defrag

Start Menu

All Programs

Acessories

System Tools

Disc Cleanup

(Defrag as above but click on Disk Defragmenter)

Tony Ryans thinking talk

Genre Writing Link

This was suggested on my PRT course.
Excellent writing genre resources.

Link
http://www.writingfun.com

Cat

Rachel Boyd

is coming to do a workshop on using ICT in the classroom. It will be in the first week of these holidays the 5th July. Here is a link to her website that has heaps of things on it. This is where I go to get blogging tips and ideas.
http://rachelboyd.wikispaces.com/

Techy Breckys

Please comment below on things you would like me to cover during these sessions. :)

ICT Survey - all need to complete

Click on here and complete out the survey. There are only 10 questions however it needs to be completed by next Friday.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W28SCVK

Teacher's Pet

http://www.tpet.co.uk/

Down-loadable resources for all areas

Ictopus

Ictopus (ICT online primary user support) is a free web-based support service for primary education. Our key services, accessed from the tabs at the top of this page, are:

Sharing Good Practice (SGP)

– a fortnightly, six-page, printable magazine for teachers about using ICT effectively in primary education.

lessons2go

– lesson plans for the use of ICT across the primary key stages and curriculum – indexed for key stages, subjects or year groups.

newsblog

– a regular bulletin to keep you up-to-date with all developments in the educational use of ICT.

ictopus@home

– a fortnightly, four-page magazine for families offering advice to parents and carers on ways of using ICT effectively to support education.

Other services include:

Pictopus
– a collection of copyright free images for use in your teaching – the slideshow on the right shows a selection from the tools gallery in the artefacts collection
Activities – educational activities for children.
Can You Help? – a help and advice column.
Website of the Week/Top Tips – see this week’s new WOTW.
Big Books – on-screen books, for use in your teaching, in the form of pdf documents which can be run in the browser.
http://www.ictopus.org.uk/

http://www.sparklebox2.co.uk/           for seniors

http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/             for juniors

Resources to download and print. Numeracy, Literacy, topic, classroom management

Brilliant Books Blogs

http://brilliantbook1.blogspot.com/

Reviews on books

Digital Storytelling

This is a link to a livebinder - collection of resources for teachers, on Digial storytelling.
The links range from tools to use in digital storytelling to examples of the different kinds of digital storytelling methods used in schools.
http://livebinders.com/play/play?id=7414

Vocab Ahead

http://www.vocabahead.com/VocabularyVideos/TabId/59/VideoId/1021/Zealous.aspx

VocabAhead provides an extensive free collection of unique videos and flash cards to learn vocabulary for daily usage. The site is both colorful and filled with some fun-filled cartoons to better assist its word learners. The site sections include a Study Room, videos, a Word List, a forum, and a place for teachers to better engage their students in learning words with widgets that can be embedded. One of the highlights on the site is the “Vocabulary Video of the Day.
The site also allows student made vocab videos to upload to the site.

Spelling City

http://www.spellingcity.com/


Spelling city - a place to learn your spelling words by playing games

The Fun Theory

Fun is the esiest way to change people's behaviour for the better.

The piano Stairs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lXh2n0aPyw

Digistore - Tki

Digital resources to support curriculum areas.

http://digistore.tki.org.nz/ec/p/home