The DFE recently announced new legislation concerning school websites which comes into effect for the 1st of September 2012. In summary, the new legislation is removing the requirement for schools to provide a paper prospectus and is instead requiring schools to have all of the information available online. Is your website ready? Do you have a description [...]
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 #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 [...]
