Google Sites
Another great tool from Google. Google sites allows you to create you own website in a few simple steps. You can easily add images, documents, videos and also allow students to upload files.
Great for creating online courses, providing access to resources or creating an electronic record of achievement.
Posted in Web Design
Weebly
Weebly is a easy to use online website design tool. Users can choose from a variety of themes and drag and drop images, videos and text into the pages.
Great for student showcases, celebration of achievement or promotion of personal interests.
Posted in Web Design
Storybird
Storybird allows students to create beautiful story books using their text and professional images. Books can be stored or shared. Teachers can manage class accounts and build group libraries.
Great for creative writing and story telling.
Posted in Writing
Wordle
Wordle is an interesting site that allows you to create colourful word clouds. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the text.
Great for analysing documents or just creating cool pieces of art.
Posted in Writing
Jing
Jing allows you to take a picture or make a short video of what you see on your computer monitor. Videos and images can then be shared via email or posted online.
Great for creating how to videos to facilitate independent learning, Communicating effectively or commenting on students work.
Posted in Video
Skype
Skype is a widely used video and chat messaging system. It is free and simple to use and allows communication without geographical limits.
Great for distance learning, communicating with overseas schools, connecting with subject matter experts or just communicating online.
Posted in Communication
Twitter is a instant messaging and microblogging site. Users are limited to 140 characters with each “tweet” and can be followed or choose to follow other users to exchange information.
Great for informal CPD and keeping up with what’s hot in your subject area. A great way to share good practice and to push information share resources with students.
Posted in Communication
Bounce
Bounce App makes sharing information that much more effective. Take a screen shot from the web, annotate the important bits and then share it. Add highlights, notes and links.
Great for setting directed research tasks, Scaffolding tasks and differentiating activities.
Posted in Research
Awesome Highlighter
The awesome highlighter allows you to add annotations to your chosen web pages. Select your web page, add your highlights and then the tool gives you a unique link to your page.
Great for focusing attention, saving time and highlighting important areas of interest.
Posted in Research
Wallwisher
Wallwisher is an online collaborative noticeboard. Users create a “wall” and then share the link. People with the link can then post notes, links and images on the shared wall.
Great for brainstorming, sharing ideas, recapping lessons, student voice and loads more
Posted in Uncategorized
