Reach into the Toolbox #9 The Photosynth tools from Microsoft allow you to create visually stunning photographs from single images which are then ‘stitched’ together. The example below was taken by my colleague Steph as we left the BETT show in January 2012. A view of BETT 2012 on Wednesday evening as the last visitors were leaving. [...]
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 #7 The Teacher Training Video website has been created by Russell Stannard, a principal teaching fellow at the University of Warwick working in the Center for Applied Linguistics. He has created a wide range of videos to help students and educators learn how to use new technology tools and apply them in the [...]
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 [...]
Reach into the Toolbox #1 If this series of blogs is going to highlight useful Internet tools for education, I thought I’d better start with an organisational tip……. Social Bookmarking …….. saving your favourite websites into an online social bookmarking site. This means that you can access your favourites from any machine with an Internet [...]
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 [...]
