ICT Tools

http://www.imageloop.com-t is a web based service, meaning you don’t have to download anything to use the app. Basically the service they provide, is they give you a software in which you can create your own slideshows. But that is not everything that there is to Imageloop. There are a lot of other services they offer, such as unlimited free web storage, so you can host your images for free and add them easily to myspace, and other websites or blogs.(killer startups)

Make your own (or get the kids to make) a jeopardy quiz/ board game etc. http://www.superteachertools.com/

ICT Tools - Neil Lynch ICT

Enter the Group is a way to extend learning beyond the walls of your classroom. Use it to extend conversations, debates, and offer support through online discussion; help students (and parents) keep track of assignments and classroom events, keep track of and share files so students who are absent are never left behind, to collect shared resources and information (a kind of “digital textbook” that you create for/with your students); to expand on class topics with video; and to create a collaborative learning environment. Students can use Enter the Group to plan and organize projects that they are working on in groups, providing a virtual meeting space outside of the classroom to collaborate. Enter the Group is perfect for students who are out with an illness or to continue learning opportunities when pandemic illness or bad weather keeps us from the physical classroom (anyone had SNOW problems this year? Enter the Group provides a platform where students can continue learning and collaborating from any Internet-connected computer.(ilearntechnology)

http://simonhaughton.typepad.com/ict/2011/03/introducing-edmodo-my-first-experiences.html
Edmodo is probably most easily described as being a child-friendly version of Facebook designed specially for schools.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/ict/edmodo.htm
20 ideas for using Edmodo
7 interesting ideas
Great tips and tricks!
Simon haughtons blogs on Edmodo- highly recomended
Edmodo Explained
http://www.flickr.com//photos/simonhaughton/sets/72157626459660966/show/

ICT Tools - Neil Lynch ICT

SKYPE CLASSROOM DIRECORY
http://blogs.skype.com/classroom-pre-register/-"We're developing a free online directory to make it easy for teachers to connect with other teachers and resources from around the world. The directory will launch in December in English only".

http://langwitches.org/blog/2009/01/03/around-the-world-with-80-schools/
Around the World with 80 Schools started in January 2009 and is an ongoing project. The challenge is for an educator to connect with 80 schools from around the world via Skype (a free video conferencing tool).

Flash Meeting

FlashMeeting is an easy to use online meeting application, it allows a dispersed group of people to meet from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Typically a meeting is pre-booked by a registered user and a url, containing a unique password for the meeting, is returned by the FlashMeeting server. The 'booker' passes this on to the people they wish to participate, who simply click on the link to enter into the meeting at the arranged time.
http://flashmeeting.e2bn.net/

https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTU4NTI3MDU5 keep all your files in one place accessible from anywhere - 2gb free.

http://www.teachingnews.co.uk/category/curriculum-areas/ict/

An anthropological introduction to YouTube

A social networking site that provides a private micro-blogging service specifically for schools and teachers.

1. Setup an account (you’ll need an email address).
2. Choose a default classroom name/code.
3. Add students to your network. A random password will be generated for each student. They login using your classroom code and their random password – which you also have the option to change, thus never entering personal details such as their name, age or email.
4. Start posting messages to your network.
5. There are some additional features you can use: • Share links in the ‘bookmarks’ section. • Change your avatar and bio in the avatar section.
6. Twiducate also has the ability for teachers to open and operate
multiple classes on the one account.

http://notaland.com
Nota has been used for educational purpose as an online collaboration tool that allows students and educators to instantly create and share virtually any kind of document -- presentations, notebooks, reports , artwork -- anything. Nota makes every kind of document and media work together -- easily, seamlessly and instantly. Users can integrate material from an almost endless and expanding list of sources:images, YouTube clips, clip art, text -- anything. There’s no software to purchase or install, and no limit to what you can express using Nota. And because Nota’s online, collaborative and real-time, student reactions, responses and ideas can be instantly integrated into the document.

Wallwisher

http://www.exploratree.org.uk/
Exploratree is

a free web resource where teachers and students can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make their own. Thinking guides can support independent and group research projects with frameworks for thinking, planning and enquiry. Exploratree has emerged out of our work on Enquiring Minds. (futurelabs) IPC mind mapping.

7 STEPS TO INITIATE A MOBILE LEARNING PILOT PROGRAM
STEP 1: Identify Potential Learning Objectives
To begin any mobile learning project, you need to first identify the learning objectives.

STEP 2: Shortlist Areas for Application for the Pilot
This step may have been identified along with your learning objectives in some cases. If not, it is a good idea to shortlist the potential areas of application you’d like to experiment on during your mobile learning pilot.

STEP 3: Define Success Criteria & Measurability
In order to measure whether your pilot has been a success or not, you need to put measurable goals in place. These will be your success criteria markers and will enable you to understand just how well your pilot performed based on your expectations when the project is over.

STEP 4: Evaluate Devices in Terms of Costs & Capabilities
There are various types of mobile devices in the market today. Based on your defined learning objective, you should be able to narrow down features to the top three to five critical requirements your device must have and make a selection that best suits your need.

STEP 5: Define a Budget for the Pilot Project
Your pilot project expenditures will include devices, wireless connectivity plans, training, and the technology support and solution. Talk to a few service provides and ask for proposals. This will help you figure out a realistic budget.

STEP 6: Identify Stakeholders and Champions
For your mobile learning project to be accepted and successful you need to have your teachers involved and on board. Identify a set of people who will facilitate mobile learning and those who will implement it.

STEP 7: Internal Discussion & Finalization
A few rounds of discussion with decision makers will be required to narrow down all the above points. Once finalized, you should have a document detailing your learning objectives, application subjects, success criteria and measurement, size of the project, length of the project, devices to be used, budget, list of stakeholders, plus a content outline and technology implementation plan.

http://bubbl.us/edit.php As with any mindmapping software, this tool provides a way of capturing discussions, planning sessions or ‘brainstorming’ activities in a mixture of multi-coloured diagrams – highlighting links between ideas or discussion points. The advantage of using the internet-based bubbl.us is that learners can collaborate on a document without being in the same place and that the intuitive application can be navigated without having to use a mouse. Mixing this with a voice tool (such as Skype, YackPack etc) could provide an even richer method of interacting around a shared document. Maps can then be saved, printed, e-mailed or shared more widely via the web.
Education scenario/possibility
Collaborating during idea generation activities, capturing discussion points, organising ideas, using mindmapping activities to share understanding of a particular topic or even mapping out the resources available to the learner for a particular project is possible with this software – but being able to create (for example) a mindmap of local historical events, could become much richer when collaborating between secondary and primary schools students, the local museum and parents and grandparents. Using this software can begin to extend the activities within the classroom to others outside and provide students with wider access to other experts and peers beyond their immediate environment. IPC mind mapping.

http://www.createascape.org.uk
A mediascape is composed of sounds, images and video placed outside in your local area. To see the images and video, and hear the sounds you need a handheld computer (PDA) and a pair of headphones. An optional GPS unit can automatically trigger the images, video and sounds in the right places.
To create a mediascape, you start with a digital map of your local area. Using special, free software, you can attach digital sounds, pictures and video to places that you choose on the map .
By going outside into the area the map covers, you can experience the mediascape. Using the handheld computer and headphones, you can hear the sounds and see the pictures and video in the places the author of the mediascape has put them. All sorts of exciting things can happen as you explore the mediascape. (futurelabs)- Ideal for the ICP topic Location.

http://www.go2web20.net/
A list of over 1000 web 2.0 tools

http://37signals.com/ - 30 day free trial
This is a collection of tools that make project management easier between different parties – and considering the number of different projects managed by teachers and learners, this may provide a useful suite. Basecamp provides tools for project management and collaboration; Campfire provides an instant messaging system designed for group interactions; Backpack provides information organising tools and calendars – all of which can be shared with remote collaborators.

From students managing their own projects, to accessing remote experts and resources, 37signals provides a wide range of tools from professional practice, presented in a way that is simple to use and to manage. By using web-based tools to organise learning activities, learners have greater flexibility in when they access them and when how they organise meetings, sharing resources and setting goals and assessments. Student controlled activities that involve collaboration and cooperation can be helped through the use of such tools.
(futurelabs)

Images

Always using google images & finding the results unsatisfactory? there are many ways to seach flickr
http://zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/ one of the many ways to seach flickr for quality images-
the others are listed here http://www.xmarks.com/site/www.zoo-m.com/flickr-storm/

picfindr.com

http://www.picfindr.com/ The intention behind PicFindr is to simplify the process of finding stock photography, making PicFindr a kind of image search engine. In response to the search term you have entered, it accesses various image hosting websites. Importantly, it also lets you filter the resulting images according to how strict the Intellectual Property (IP) as ascribed per image - essentially finding images that you can reuse without cost or IP issues.
Education scenario/possibility PicFindr has many potential uses within the educational context. Although there are many image hosting websites, PicFindr is relatively unique as specifically a stock photography search engine - with a key benefit that it indicates how the images can be used (for example what publishing rights are linked to the image or how the image can be reused). It could be used as a general resource for teachers and learners when digital images are required. (futrurelabs)

http://picturesandbox.com- & http://www.taggalaxy.de/- are also great places to find quality images- students love using tag galaxy -Enter a keyword and Tag Galaxy will search Flickr for related images. You can either click the big ball of gas at the center of your screen to see some of the images, or you can check out one of the little related-tag planets orbiting the center of your tag galaxy, or solar system. Each planet is in motion, and you can navigate by dragging and dropping various parts of the screen. When you actually click on a tag to view the images, you can spin the ball around to find more images, and click an image to enlarge it. (Cnet)

http://www.bighugelabs.com/- BigHugelabs is a site that's home to over 40 tools that let you play with Flickr photos-yours and everyone else's. The tools do a wide variety of things to photos including adding text, adding a filter, creating a magazine cover, or making a motivational poster. Another feature is something called the Warholizer which allows the user turn a picture into Wharol-like poster art. (Cnet)

http://www.skrbl.com/132216840
http://www.svennerberg.com/2009/02/the-rise-of-zooming-interfaces/- zoom

powerbullet (swf)
Easily create slick Flash presentations for business, sales or educational uses. Simple drag and drop interface means no technical expertise required. Publish to the ubiquitous Flash format.
Easily create slick Flash presentations for business, sales or educational uses. Simple drag and drop interface means no technical expertise required. Publish to the ubiquitous Flash format. Drop in sounds (MP3 or WAV files), images (PNG, GIF, JPEG) or Flash files (SWF). Create animations on any element in the page. Create page transitions with the click of a button. Now with fullscreen playback, auto-advance, sound sync and executable creation.
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