ICT Development

Pinterest is another content curating tool similar to Scoop.it!, but it is more visual. It provides a place where the user can visually bookmark, or pin web content pictures to…

Scoop.it! is a tool that lets people gather and distribute content from around the Web based on their interests. Teachers can use it as a way of curating sources of information…

Fellow ICT teacher Gideon Williams has an interesting list of  7 new Web 2.0 tools which he has found useful. Take a look at his recommendations. Making an Infographic –…

When the iPad first came out in April 2010 (was it really just over 18 months ago?) I wasn’t blown away. Here was an Apple device (as opposed to a…

Ian Addison, a teacher from Hampshire has a website which is called, ‘undertenminutes‘. Ian is a Primary School Teacher, ICT Co-ordinator, an ICT Mark Assessor and a Google Apps for…

Simon Howells, Head of French at The Grange School, Northwich has produced an excellent Prezi, with a screencast of 4 screen capture tools. Take a look and see how you might…

We’ve recently installed Comic Life in the ICT suites, Art, MFL and the Junior School. It’s such a fun presentation application and boys are enjoying the very easy and creative…

We’ve created a series of tutorial videos in order to assist staff who want to get ahead with various aspects of blogging. Please visit this link. Also, don’t forget to visit…

There are some really good utilities and small applications available for staff to use with their laptops or computers.    1.  ZOOMIT enables one to zoom into (enlarge) text or…

Several people are able to source good video material from the internet. Even though our internet provision is good and we have little problem with streaming video during lessons, there…

There are a number of different ways of storing or accessing saved documents besides having to carry them around on a USB memory stick or emailing files to yourself. Sometimes emailing files can be tricky because…

Another free Web 2.0 resource – VoiceThread. VoiceThread is an online medium which can hold almost any type of media (images, documents ( PDF’s) and videos) and it allows students…

Wordle has proved to be popular, so I hope you’ll find it helpful if I add more tools and ideas which could prove useful in presentations. A blog post with…

I’m sure many have already been introduced to wallwisher.  (http://www.wallwisher.com/) It’s an excellent Web 2.0 application, (hosted online) which is the equivalent of a giant sticky board. It is useful in…

A very good poster creator is on a website called BigHugeLabs and is called Motivator. It allows you to create professional looking posters quickly and easily for class displays. I created…

www.Prezi.com and www.bubbl.us are two websites which offer some useful tools for teachers.  Prezi is an interesting alternative to PowerPoint, but which can be used in other ways; Bubbl.us is…

Nottingham High has this new wordpress multi user site, created to enable us to develop blogs for various classes and activities. Sam and Kerry have put together some ideas and what we think are useful Web…

As a trial, I’m moving the elearning bulletin to our new blog website. I’m hoping that this will mean less cluttered in boxes for everyone, and a useful quick and ready reference to tools you…