Need a Hero?

The Hero Factory lets you produce your own superheroes. You can choose the gender and look of your character - what outfits they wear and then select their super powers. It’s great fun. Once created you can output your hero onto a mock-up comic book cover, or just screengrab from inside the creator. Remember you can use the desktop capture tool in Smart or Promethean software or just Print Screen, paste into Word and then crop down.

This would be great to inspire creative writing - students could make a character and then write about him/her. Or you might like to create Captain Maths who you use in your IWB slides to give the students maths problems or Doctor Atomic to provide a question to test in a science investigation.

Creative Writing Ideas

Mark Warner of Teaching Ideas deserves a lot of kudos for starting off another brilliant collaborative presentation. This one aims to provide ideas for inspiring writing in the classroom. Like the others (listed below) it starts with a few ideas and then relies on the teaching community to pool their knowledge via Twitter or by sharing the presentation and adding their ideas. It was 21 ideas when I started writing this, it’s now 24 ideas and growing (Fridge Magnet Poetry is #22)

Take a look and hopefully get inspired. and if you have any ideas to share, contact Mark and let him know.

A reminder that there are many more collaborative presentations produced by Tom Barrett (and friends)

• IWB Classroom Tips
• Google Earth Classroom Tips
• Pocket Video Classroom Tips
• Google Docs Classroom Tips

They are packed with ideas, and if you have any more please add to them!