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 is a wonderful website that has loads of “heritage” pictures and associated activities. Their strapline states,
“Explore our inspirational images and information to discover more about England’s heritage.
Teachers and pupils can pick and mix from our images and resources to create their own learning experience.”
The site has the following categories;
http://www.heritageexplorer.org.uk/nmrlearningzone/default.aspx
If you are interested in setting up a Web 2.0 environment for your class, but are worried about online security and safety, it might be worth exploring Edmodo. Their website says,
“Edmodo is a private micro-blogging platform built for use by teachers and students for use in the classroom. The problem with traditional web 2.0 tools in a k-12 classroom environment is concerns over privacy of the students. Edmodo has been built with the privacy of students in mind. Edmodo provides a way for teachers and students to share notes, links, and files. Teachers also have the ability to send, alerts, events, and assignments to students.”
see Edmodo here – http://www.edmodo.com/blog/about/
For those of you with the latest version of PowerPoint this is well worth a look. This is a plugin that turns your presentation into a Microsoft “touchwall” – their website says,
“Microsoft Turns Super Awesome TouchWall Into Super Snoozy PowerPoint Plugin” – you can find it here along with a great explanational video;
