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Wallwisher – Review for my MSc

November 24, 2009 - MSc, Site of the Week, Web Tools - By: Chris

Pic: create wallOne of the activities this semester for the Technology Enhanced Learning Innovation and Change MSc has been to examine a free Web2.0 tool and to post our reflections on it. I chose to do Wallwisher after a…

CP3 Conference – resources available

November 17, 2009 - Professional Development, Site of the Week - By: Chris

Pic: Image Credit - Tom BarranceFilm Education’s CP3 conference is a routinely excellent occasion and well worth your attention if you are involved in using digital media in education. I’ve blogged about it before.
The last event was in Liverpool (way…

Myna – Easy audio creation on the web

September 24, 2009 - Site of the Week, Web Tools - By: Chris

Pic: Myna from AviaryAviary has recently released a web based audio editor called Myna and it’s well wrth a look regardless of what area of the curriculum you’re from.
Aviary already has an established web…

Is the world getting better or worse?

September 10, 2009 - Site of the Week, resources - By: Chris

Pic: Image - CC from FlickrNot a hugely inspiring piece of ICT but this data poster has come from New Scientist via Digg. It’s worth a moment of your time.

VuVox – Multimedia collage creator

August 13, 2009 - Site of the Week, Web Tools - By: Chris

Pic: vuvox logoHave been having a bit of fun with VuVox today. It’s a nifty wee tool for making a collage of images, videos and music presented in a scolling format.

Making stop-motion animation

August 11, 2009 - Site of the Week, Tips and Techniques - By: Chris

M’learned colleague at Sheffield South CLC, Catherine Moore has been using her summer profitably. She’s made a short how-to about making stop motion animation. I particularly like the paper clip fish.

The iSchool Initiative

July 23, 2009 - Site of the Week, Whole School Issues - By: Chris

Pic: ischoolTravis Allen is an 18-year old student from Georgia, USA who has started something called the iSchool Initiative. He makes the argument that if all students had the Apple devices running a collection of apps there would be considerable learning, cost-saving and environmental benefits for schools.

OE-Cake makes me wish…

July 6, 2009 - Site of the Week, resources, software - By: Chris

Pic: explosion-liquid sculpture…I was a physicist!

Basically, OE-Cake is a physics simulator for demonstrating the properties of different materials.

Cute wee jigsaw puzzle site

June 15, 2009 - Site of the Week, Web Tools, resources - By: Chris

Pic: 3120977127_fe44d151d1 - online jigsaw puzzle - 24 piecesHere’s a nice wee jigsaw puzzle creator which would be nice for whiteboard activities. Jigsaws are saved as a URL so can be put on blogs, VLE’s etc.
Have a go at my nice but pointless…

BBC Poetry Season -

May 27, 2009 - Site of the Week, resources - By: Chris

Pic: Image - surrealmuse on Flickr 
Have a look at the BBC’s poetry season mini-site. Loads of media and bits and pieces about making poetry accessible. If you’re an English teacher you’ve probably already seen it but I thought I’d…