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I’ve written about the fabulous Aviary before. If you haven’t seen it, Aviary provides a suite of online tools that allows you to take create images, edit screenshots, edit sounds and create music. All for free, and all through your browser. I was rather pleased to find out that there will soon be an special [...]
US whiteboard users might well be interested in this competition that has just been launched by StarrMatica. StarrMatica is on a mission to help teachers in every corner of the United States! They are giving away a $900 StarrMatica School Subscription in every state! StarrMatica school subscription gives all teachers and students in a building [...]
Can I Play This at Home is a fun free online game, in which you try to win the World Cup as any of the 32 nations – by answering questions on tricky spellings, spanish verbs, state capitals, world capitals… or whatever else the teacher decides on. Teachers can create their own quizzes on the [...]
LabSkills is an interactive software resource designed to help teachers and their students get more out of chemistry laboratory sessions at A-level and GCSE levels. Available as a USB stick, a teacher can use the material to prepare students for a laboratory session. LabSkills supports and encourages the student and enhances the practical work. It [...]
If you’re looking for some other excellent technology blogs for teachers then take a look at this list put together by Alexis. The Top 100 Technology Blogs for Teachers has links to some excellent blogs that are well worth adding to your Google Reader list. http://www.onlinedegrees.org/top-100-technology-blogs-for-teachers/ And also a big thanks to Alexis who has [...]
Here’s a great resource if you are a UK-based teacher looking for quality video resources for your lesson. Learning Zone Broadband Class Clips provides rich audio-visual material for use in primary schools, secondary schools and colleges. These short videos have been selected to match the curriculum. They can be used in many ways; from the [...]
If you are looking for good examples of pupil-created blogs then go take a look at the Blog the World Cup project. The idea is brilliantly simple: there are 32 nations in the FIFA World Cup and there will be 32 blogs on the site, one for each competing nation. Each blog will be managed [...]
One of my favourite websites, The Big Picture, has again delivered the goods with some excellent images from the first few days of the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. A great way of stimulating a discussion about such a global event. You can see the images here. Let’s not spend too long talking about [...]
If you are in Australia then this conference may well be of interest to you! IWBNet invites teachers to attend the Seventh National Interactive Teaching and Learning Conference (formerly IWB Conference) at St Stephens College, Upper Coomera, Gold Coast, QLD on 12, 13 and 14 August 2010. Register by 30 June 2010 to secure the early bird rate and go into [...]
History teachers might be interested in this interactive version of the Anne Frank house. Produced by the Anne Frank Museum, pupils can move and look around the house and see it as it would have looked during the Nazi occupation of Amsterdam. The Secret Annex Online has been created using photos of the actual furnished [...]