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.
Sadly, [...]
12.11ASE Conference 2010
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 a [...]
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 to [...]
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 a wide [...]
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 first [...]
I was half way through delivering a course on how to use Web 2.0 in the classroom when I saw a headline on the BBC news website that stopped me in my tracks for a second: Probe into Teacher Twitter Posts. I was gobsmacked when I read it.
Now I will agree that a teacher does [...]
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 [...]
Stupeflix is a new site that lets you turn images into video slideshows in the same way that Animoto does. It’s currently in Beta and while you can create videos for free it looks like there may be a charge in future.
You can add images by copying and pasting the image URLs froma site such [...]