One of the talks I gave at the Teacher2Teacher conference was on finding useful digital content to use on your Interactive Whiteboard. There’s more to the Internet than YouTube and Google Image search! Although this presentation was delivered mainly to Smartboard users, and the original presentation produced in Smart Notebook format, the information is very [...]
If you’re bored with the usual images and want to add some special effects to your pictures, then check out Big Huge Labs. This site provides hundreds of different filters than can be applied to your photos to add many different special effects. You can give the site access to your Flickr or Facebook photo [...]
Here’s a great little link I got from the PetaPixel photography blog this morning. Flickr Poet is a quick way of turning a poem, sentence or chunk of random text into a sequence of Flickr photographs. FlickrPoet is part of Stories In Flight, an ongoing exploration of storytelling in the age of the Internet. It [...]
You can’t beat a powerful image to add punch to your lesson. Whether you want something to put up to draw questions from the class or just to add extra emphasis to a presentation. I’ve written about this before – and linked to a few good sources of images such as The Big Picture. To [...]
One of the benefits of having an Interactive Whiteboard in the classroom (or even just a data projector) is the opportunity to display full colour high quality images instead of grainy acetates or posters. With a powerful image you can really add some “punch” to your lesson. Put images up while students are coming into [...]
02.23Five Card Flickr
Here’s another nice idea for using the internet as an inspiration for creative writing; Five Card Flickr. Five Card Flickr draws from nearly a thousand photos on flickr tagged with “5cardflickr” You are dealt 5 random photos from Flickr and you choose one to add to your story. You then repeat this 4 more times [...]
01.19Tilt Shift Maker
Tilt shifting is a way of processing a photograph so that it appears to be a model instead of the real thing. I’ve always been amazed by the fact that just adding a blur to parts of the photograph changes the whole way the brain processes the image and makes you think you are looking [...]
In the last blog post I mentioned how to use FlickrCC to search for creative commons images to use in your presentations. There are some other search tools out there too. I’ve just uploaded to Scribd a document I produced for the blogging/podcasting course about ways of finding creative commons images and sounds/music. I’ll embed [...]
I’ve been playing with lots of online tools recently, but the two that are my current favourites are Twitter and Flickr. I want to use this blog post to promote two great guides that fellow educators have put together for these tools. I’ve been on Flickr for ages and it’s a great way of sharing [...]
01.08Animoto
Thanks to Ewan at EduBlogs for linking to a great little resource called AniMoto. It creates professional-looking video slideshows from your photos. I am too tight to stump up for the full version yet, but I have been playing with the free version that lets you make short 15 second clips. Here’s my first video. [...]