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.

[] Allows you to make a video of what you are doing on screen. You can share this with your students. I have used it to show students how to use different pieces of software.

[] converts various video formats.

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

[] Excellent presentation tool.

[] Hot potatoes, set up tests. Particularly good for paper 1 practice.

[] 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.

[] Make your own flash cards.

[] 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 thoughts 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.http://keepvid.com/

[] Save youtube videos.

[] Visuals/photos slideshows.

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