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
This was originally posted by a variety of people in Twitter – it comprises of many photographs categorised by people, decade, places, events and culture – it has its own search facility making it very easy to track down images to support any project you are running in the classroom – as a teacher i would find this a really useful resource to support any work i was doing in the area of visual literacy -
LIFE photo archive hosted by Google
Came across this useful looking site called STIXY - this is in effect a blank bulletin board – you can add images, to do lists, documents and notes -
Stixies can be shared with invited guests (by email) thus making them a collaborative tool – This could have a variety of classroom applications ranging from collaborative research to records of achievement -
You might be interested to know that last year the National College for School Leadership and the National Education Trust hosted a day for 100+ primary pupils to work on a pupil learners charter. The day proved to be excellent and the charter can be found by following the link below – take a look – why not think about developing a learners charter at your own school – i would be very interested to hear from anyone who wants to do this.
