Discovering more of Web 2.0

Hi again everyone,

I have just been looking at some more tools that we all might like to experiment with and found a couple of really interesting ones.

1 - http://www.creaza.com/ is an amazingly powerful site that could really be handy for editing audio, video and creating animations and cartoons. Certainly worth a look if you're keen to do something down that track.

2 - http://www.polleverywhere.com/ is little more controversial, but could be quite brilliant and effective. I'd be really keen to hear some feedback from people on this one to see if you would consider using this in your classroom, so post a comment and let me know.

Year 5 Visits

Hi again,
www.redz.com , www.search-cube.com, www.taggalaxy.com

Year 5 students from around the region visited our College today and we showed them some of the wonders of the web. They are really keen to start using some of the more graphical search engines which present them with results that are not just in plain text. If you want to have a look at some of their thoughts from their day at the college, visit http://piratepad.net/year5mdcc

Year 5 visiting our College.

Sites to start with...

Hi everyone, 

Welcome to the Teaching Technology Blog. For the first installment, I thought I would give you some websites to play around with. The best way for learning most of these things is by playing with them, so try a few of them and let me know what you think. You'll be surprised how great some of them are - particularly some of the search engines down the bottom!

PRESENTATION SOFTWARE!

www.prezi.com - an online presentation maker that really makes an impact.

www.tripwow.com - turns basic elements into a snazzy presentation

SITES FOR USE IN VARIOUS CLASSROOM SITUATIONS

http://www.timetoast.com/ - An excellent timeline maker

http://www.gizmoz.com - put yourself in the digital world!

http://www.benettonplay.com/toys/flipbookdeluxe/index.php - make a flipbook animation on the fly

http://www.youblisher.com/ - turn PDF's into much more interactive and sylish documents

www.flippingtypical.com - choose effective fonts for assignments

http://museumbox.e2bn.org/ - create a collection of resources on a subject, arranged very interestingly.

http://animoto.com/ - Turn photos, music and video into a professional looking movie trailer

http://www.khanacademy.org/ - a wonderful site for Maths, Science and some other areas full of DIY videos.

REALLY INTERESTING SEARCH ENGINES!

www.wolframalpha.com - performs calculations and returns really interesting data on your search terms

www.spacetime3d.com - graphical interface to search engine

www.redz.com - gives a scrubbable interface to the search

www.search-cube.com/ - gives results in an interesting cube

www.taggalaxy.com - searches through flickr content to find relevant images

YOUTUBE TOOLS:

www.tubechop.com - lets you chop apart a youtube video

www.keepvid.com - lets you download youtube videos

www.quiettube.com - lets you take away all the surrounding (distracting) content around a youtube video