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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 [...]
Want to watch the Internet grow before your eyes? This is quite a fun little app that shows the rate at which various social media sites are expanding and a few other stats too. You can find the original, and get a code to embed it into your own blog, here.
Those very clever people over at 2Simple have revamped their online tools to produce a new resource called Purple Mash. Purple Mash is an exciting mash up of the creative Online Tools, curriculum focussed APPtivities and programs to support and inspire children throughout the curriculum! The good news is that there is “free-range mash” that [...]
One of my favourite sites from 2009 was an amazing tool called Etherpad. It allowed multiple users to collaborate within the same writing space from anywhere in the world at exactly the same time. It was brilliant for collaborative writing, collating ideas during a training session/lesson and pooling the knowledge of experts via the internet. [...]
If you are a Science teacher, then you need to know about the ASE Conference which takes place every January. This year’s event is in Nottingham on the 7-9 January. There is a wealth of workshops and talks that are well worth attending. If you do go – you might want to pop along to [...]
I’m a massive fan of Etherpad. Out of all the new tools that I have discovered and played with this year, none has had the impact of Etherpad when I have shown it to a group of teachers. Give them 5 minutes to play with the amazing collaborative writing space and you can see little [...]
Scribblar is a another in a growing line of online collaborative space such as Etherpad, Wallwisher and is probably most like Dabbleboard in the way it works. And like my favourite sites, it’s free to use. Using Scribblar, users can collaborate on their own online whiteboard or “room” – featuring many of the tools familiar [...]
I have written about this site in the past when it was XML Education. The site has a new look, and a new name. It’s now called Triptico and you can find it here: http://www.triptico.co.uk . The site is produced by two teachers over here in the UK, and the resources they have produced so [...]
If you are in London on 19th June, and have an interest in teacher blogging, then the MirandaMod Blogging conference may well be something you should attend. It’s a free event held at the Institute of Education in London. There are three parts to this participative CPD experience. Participants can attend all three to gain [...]
Following on from my blog post about the teacher who got in trouble for twittering, I’ve had a little bit of time to think about some of the implications of this. I was also given this link to the same story as reported in the Daily Telegraph which makes things sound a little worse. My [...]