Hello – I am posting this slideshow after a couple of requests following my presentation on ’stress and the teaching profession’ today (8th June 2010). I hope you found the presentation useful – if you’d like to download the PPT slides, just click through to ‘Slideshare’ which is where I host copies of many [...]
For those of you who haven’t seen this yet or have forgotten how good this is, here’s Taylor Mali delivering a high octane poetry slam about what teachers make — I never get bored of hearing this!
If you are anything like me, then Powerpoint would rank high on your list of essential IT tools that are used in your classroom delivery. I use slideshow presentations on a regular basis and I’d like to think that my presentations are of a high standard. I don’t overwork the text to image ratio, I [...]
In a further effort to avoid reinventing the wheel, here is a wikipage that I recently stumbled upon that is absolutely teeming with useful teacher resources for embracing Web 2.0 tools in the classroom – take a look and please do leave a comment if you try any of them out so that we can [...]
If you have liked the resources for teachers that I have already posted on this site, but don’t want to wait to see what else is out there to be discovered, then this post is for you!
This link will take you to an ‘Online College Blog’ post entitled ‘100 Powerful Web Tools to Organise Your Thoughts [...]
If you’re anything like me, then at some point or other you’ve found the perfect video clip on Youtube to employ in one of your classes. It’s a fantastic resource and growing all the time. However, it’s quite possible that your school blocks that site or when you come to use the clip a year later, it’s gone!
Never [...]
Drop.io can be thought of as a shared pigeon hole floating in the ether! Imagine if your students and colleagues could drop images, documents or spreadsheets into a collective online space which you could customise to determine access rights. That pretty much captures the essence of Drop.io – it’s free to sign up to and is very [...]
Here is a ‘Glog’ created on Glogster which is an online interactive multi-media poster maker. It’s free, very easy to learn and is a great resource for teachers and staff alike. I’ve taken the opportunity to use this poster to offer some tutorial material on RSS feeds, Social Bookmarking and Blogging. If you click on any [...]
Diigo is a free Social bookmarking website which allows signed-up Users to bookmark and tag web-pages. It also allows you to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes for future reference. These annotations can be private or you can share them with a group within Diigo or as a special link forwarded to someone else.
As a [...]
Here are some further thoughts on how teachers might find a home for ‘Wordles’ in their classrooms. As an English teacher, many of the suggestions have a distinctly literary context but I’ve tried to offer a few suggestions for other areas of the curriculum too.
Create a Wordle as a pre-reading activity for a class novel [...]
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