Reach into the Toolbox #8 Wallwisher in an online noticeboard which can be filled with ideas, thoughts, notes, opinions, facts etc by everyone and anyone. It’s a bit like sticking post-it notes onto a big sheet of paper. You can also post links to pictures, videos, Powerpoint presentations, spreadsheets and PDF documents. If planning to [...]
Reach into the Toolbox #6 I must begin with week’s blog with a confession – I am absolutely rubbish at art or anything remotely artistic, I know nothing, I am completely incompetent. At primary school my teacher had to salvage all of my efforts to make them look like something recognisable. My secondary school art [...]
Reach into the Toolbox #5 I know this is old hat…..I know Photostory has been around for years…. but I absolutely love this free download from Microsoft. This simple wizard based programme allows you to upload and edit images, add text, narration and music as well as play with image transitions and effects. The resulting effect is [...]
Reach into the Toolbox #4 Wordle allows you to create “word clouds” from text that you provide: just copy and paste some text into the text box and press Go! Wordle uses the number of times a word appears in a text to determine its relative size – the more frequent the word, the larger it [...]
Reach into the Toolbox #3 This week’s offering from Education Reach is a website called Ideas to Inspire which highlights not just one tool, but a variety of tools and ideas about using ICT in the classroom to enhance, inspire and motivate (you and your pupils!). Contributions to each category have come from teachers all over the [...]
Reach into the Toolbox #2 Choose a picture from the Piclits picture gallery. The website supplies a list of nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs and ‘universal’ words and punctuation which are appropriate to the chosen picture. Simply drag and drop words onto the picture to create a sentence, poem, list, phrase etc. A drop down box allows you to [...]
“Discover the digital world together….safely!” is the message that InSafe are sending out this year with the aim of “connecting generations to educate each other” in the safer, more responsible use of online technology and mobile phones. If you haven’t already, there’s still time to sign up for and download activities/resources to use on the [...]
At Education Reach we are constantly hearing about creative and innovative ways of using ICT inside and out of the classroom. We will soon be starting a weekly blog entitled “Reach into the Toolbox” where we can share these with you so that you can build up your own ‘toolbox’ of websites, tips and ideas which can be used [...]
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt made many interesting observations when delivering the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival recently. “The UK is home of so many media-related inventions. You invented photography. You invented TV. You invented computers in both concept and practice.” He said he had been flabbergasted to learn that computer science was [...]
