Free online timers that you’ll find very useful in your classroom
Recently a teacher friend asked me if I knew of any free online timers, and this sent me on a bit of a search to see what was ‘out there’ in addition to my old favourite that I always use. What a pleasant surprise I got to see the great options available. 2.
1. Online stopwatch:. (http://www.online-stopwatch.com/)
If ever there was a site with a really good collection of timers it is this one. They have a lot of nice options for the classroom. All of these can be set to countdown any given number ...Read more
The use of word clouds in the classroom is a good way to really get through to visual learners. A word cloud is a visual image of collection of words made up of words from various sources such as words that you add yourself, a website, a poem or story etc. The great thing about word clouds is that not only do students love using them, but they are eas and valuable y to use in a variety of content areas and grade levels. My favourite word cloud generator in the past has been Wordle, but today I used Tagxe...
As I was browsing Twitter today I came across a retweet of a post by @PrimaryIdeas. I looked them up on Twitter and my search led me to another site called 3X3 links where they advertise links to their various resources http://www.3x3links.com/pi.
What is 3X3 links?
3X3Links (http://www.3x3links.com/index.html). is a useful webtool that allows you to create links, namely 9, to resources. This could be useful as an Internet start page. When you open 3X3Links it describes itself as an I...
This is a guest post from Warren Sparrow from Rondesbosch Boys Preparatory School in Cape Town – from his blog
1) Emaze
This application is really cool. Emaze can be found at http://www.emaze.com/
It allows you to make online presentations.
You can select a theme and then add text, images and videos.
It is really easy to use!!
This is the video demonstrating how to use Emaze
This is Warren’s Maths video made with Emaze
http://app.emaze.com/101759/maths
2) Animoto
Animoto is a...
A linoit board is a virtual free bulletin board which can be populated with online stickies. These stickies can have resoeurces such as videos, weblinks and images added as well as text. You can organise the board in any way that you want. The board can be public or private and stickies can be moderated before being published by the creator. Only the creator of the board can delete stickies.
How to create a Linoit Board
My presentation on how to create a Linoit board
A tutorial
Here is a gre...
In the past I loved using Wallwisher for students to write responses to various questions in various lessons. The creators of Wallwisher recently felt that the name Wallwisher did not live up to their mission of having an online virtual surface that has all the benefits of being digital and the simplicity of a notepad. So the name was changed to Padlet (http://padlet.com)
Padlet can be described as an ‘online graffiti wall where teachers and students can have discussions, share web links, po...
One of my favourite people to follow is Matt Gomez who has a Kindergarden blog http://mattbgomez.com/. He shares amazing ideas for the Foundation Phase classroom on his blog. Through him I was introduced to the potential of using Symbaloo in the classroom. Last year I wrote a post entitled ‘Get to know Symbaloo as a bookmarking or curation tool’ which explained how to create a Symbaloo mix.
In this post I want to highlight some of my favourite Symbaloo mixes for Foundation Phase lea...
Submitted by Fiona Beal
I discovered this Freemake video converter by accident the other day, tried it out and really, it is amazing. You can download any video in a number of different formats. Thank you Freemake! Up to now I have been using Keepvid to download YouTube videos, but this Freemake application goes further in that you install it on your computer and you can download any web video (not only YouTube videos) it seems in a number of different formats depending on what you choose.
For the exam...
On Thursday 12th September we held a SchoolNet webinar presented by Fiona Beal from SchoolNet entitled ‘Have you discovered Learnist boards? Try creating one…’. The webinar took place at 3:30pm. Thank you to all who attended the webinar.
Presentation
Fiona’s presentation is given below via Slideshare and you can download it if you wish to.
Let’s create a Learnist board from Fiona Beal
Summary of the webinar
Name: Have you discovered Learnist boards? Try creati...
Do you sometimes just feel like writing a particular email to get it done even though it is only due to be sent in a few days time? I often land up in situations like that and I have discovered a really great Chrome extension that facilitates this. It is called BOOMERANG and it works with Chrome or Firefox.
What is Boomerang for Gmail
This is a gmail inbox management tool that not only allows you to schedule the sending time of your emails but also has a number of other features:
With regard to sche...
