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- Create Animations, Make Friends | DoInk.com
- Dfilm - is now Dvolver. Make your own movie with the MovieMaker
- Zooburst
- Plogger | open source photo gallery PHP script | free image gallery script
- Tagxedo - Tag Cloud with Styles
- Memoov - Animation Studio online
- Visible Tweets – Twitter Visualisations. Now with added prettiness!
- Drag 'n' Drop: Counting Pennies - Magic Studio™
- embedit.in — Any file, in your website
- Convert Data, Files Online FREE: PDF, Word, Excel, Text, Images
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Top iPhone Apps for Teachers and Students (and others)
There are hundreds of apps to use for teachers and students. The problem is that many are either of poor quality or, let’s be honest, too pricey or pointless. I have compiled a brief list of excellent apps that work in the classroom and/or as independent tools for teachers, presenters and other professionals. This post [...]
Read more »Thinking Skills and Eye-Q: Fantastic read!
Ian Harris, Oliver Caviglioli, and Carol Thompson
Thinking Skills and Eye Q: Visual Tools for Raising Intelligence is perhaps one of the best books available on mind-mapping and Thinking Skills diagrams. Many of the ideas you’ll come across on this website has been inspired from Thinking Skills and Eye-Q.
I first came across this book as [...]
Effective use of Social Media Part 1: Twitter in the classroom
It seems that many counties have opted to ban/block or discourage the use of Twitter, or any Social Media tool for that matter, as Twitter can leave students open to a range of different problems. The interesting question is of course: Shouldn’t we use Twitter in the classroom so that students learn how to use [...]
Read more »The Big Idea: Make it sticky!
Extract from Exam Class Toolkit – how to create engaging lessons that ensure progression and results (Watkin & Ahrenfelt)
Sticky = understandable, memorable and effective in changing thought or behaviour.
Two big questions needs to be addressed by teachers each lesson:
What’s the point of the lesson?
Why should it matter – will it matter to the students?
It may [...]
Read more »EduRanting 1
Teaching should be about exploration, implementation and reflection. It is when these aspects blend together that we, the teachers, have the opportunity to experience real progression. Let us not forget why we are here and what the purpose of teaching actually is: to train a generation of children to become mature, level-headed individuals, professionals who [...]
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