Teaching+and+learning+tools

Below are some links to some learning/teaching tools that we have found useful. It may be worth your while exploring them and of course letting us know of any others that you have found that we could use.

[] Makes movies from pictures, does it very well. Easy to use so we use it a lot.

[] Excellent presentation tool.

[] Create animations from text, our year 7 class does this with their health and safety work.

[] Creating photobooks on line.

[] Collaborative tool, nice way of getting opinions quickly.

[] Telling stories.

[] Create comics.

[] Make simple animations.

[] Play with youtube videos, show more than one at a time on the surfaces of a cube, works well looks grand.

[] Creative way of combining text, photos, video and music linked to any topic.

[] Making flash movies.

[] Make games, set up activities, draw diagrams etc. using flash.

[] Make word clouds of essays, speeches etc.

[] Another good collaborative tool, gets everyone working together.

[] Mind mapping tool, good collaborative tool, but for individual mindmaps we still use pens, pencils and paper. some examples are here.

[] Another good way to get students to share their thopughts and work.

[] Collaborative writing tool.

http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ Excellent wiki, lots and lots of tools that can be used by teachers and students to support learning and teaching.[]

[] Save youtube videos.

[] Last but not least a nice music site, sometimes its just grand to have some music in the lesson.