Four Interesting Things

Lino

Lino is another online notice board application that lets you put a number of sticky post-its and to-do lists onto a virtual pin board. Boards can be public or private and you can use it to share files, photos and videos too!

Use it as a class notice board on your IWB. Or for lesson objectives or to collate resources / images.

Shutterborg

Shutterborg is an online word processor that lets you edit documents via your browser without the need for word processing software. A neat touch is that if you give it the URL of a website, you can open that webpage up, and edit the text. Would be useful for looking at web design to take an established site, and show how it would look in different styles were applied (and would it look better or not). This also means you could use Shutterborg as a proper website editor.

NWLG Digital Literacy Module

Here’s a resource thats designed to be used to teach aspects of Digital Literacy. Designed by NW Learning Grid this resource focuses on the knowledge and skills related to accessing, understanding and evaluating digital information. The resource is not intended to be a complete course on Digital Media Literacy but serves as an introduction to encourage the learner to reflect on their current practices and stimulate discussion and questioning.

Twiddla

Twiddla is an online shared whiteboard space. You could use it as a simple interactive whiteboard – but even better you can have several people on the board (from different computers) at the same time and use it as a collaborative space. It even allows for text and audio chat so you could use it for conferencing/meetings.

If you use any of these applications, and have some tips, let me know in the comments.

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