Manitoba Education Department have just published a handbook for parents (but equally good for teachers) on literacy with ICT. The booklet covers critical and creative thinking, ethics and responsibility and literacy and ICT. An easy read that is worth sharing with your parents.
The Horizon 2010 report is available for download from here. The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have considerable impact on teaching, learning, and creative expression within higher education.
ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that is designed to let anyone easily create their own customized 3D pop-up books. Very easy to create a pop-up book from scratch.
Plenty of example books to get you going.
Etherpad is a real time collaborative online word processor ideal for the primary classroom. When multiple people edit the same document simultaneously, any changes are instantly reflected on everyone’s screen. The result is a new and productive way to collaborate on text documents, useful for meeting notes, drafting sessions, education, team programming, and more.
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Powerful, Drag & Drop Website Editor
Add pictures, videos, music and audio, maps, and photo galleries. Sell products, accept online bookings, create a contact form, or arrange your pages in multiple columns. Drag on slideshows, files, forums, games, RSS feeds, or any other HTML embed code — all by simply dragging and dropping.
This is a really easy to use website – safe for pupils to use, enabling them to make professional looking websites in minutes
