ZooBurst – A quick and easy literacy integration


Written on June 26, 2011 – 11:43 pm | by kristydickson

A great Web 2 tool for teachers to use with their students is ZooBurst. This tool allows the students to create their own 3D pop-up books. When students start building their own books they can choose any angle and also rotate the book. They can make objects on the page clickable so that readers are able to read more about them. They can place speech bubbles on the characters that pop up when it is clicked and make them talk with each other. Children can retell a story or write their own stories.

A basic account is free. A free account entitles the individual user to make 10 books, upload your own characters (PNG or JPG files), use characters from the clip art gallery, arrange characters in 3D space, use character speech bubbles, customise backgrounds and have privacy options (e.g. private, public or password protected books).

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Twittering at School


Written on August 13, 2009 – 10:28 pm | by kristydickson

 

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Some schools  use services such as Twitterfeed, EasyTweets or HootSuite to pipe their existing RSS feeds into their Twitter accounts, so that every time something new shows up in the feed, it automatically tweets the headline and link to the full story. This is a simple way to have news, events and blog posts automated.

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Voice Thread in the Classroom


Written on June 29, 2009 – 8:39 pm | by kristydickson

I have been playing around with voice thread this week. We have started using it for Today’s number in maths just to get us started. Kids seem to be responding quite enthusiastically towards it.

Here are a few ideas for using it in the classroom

 

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Reaching Digital Natives


Written on September 15, 2008 – 5:53 pm | by kristydickson

If you want to teach them, first you have to reach them.

 

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Do you need a voki?


Written on August 19, 2008 – 6:25 pm | by kristydickson

What a cool way to record “yourself” giving instructions to the kids…


Get a Voki now!

 

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Intel® Education K-12 Resources


Written on August 15, 2008 – 4:42 am | by kristydickson

I came across these today.

Intel® Education K-12 Resources

“With the help of technology, teachers will be leaders in the transformation of education around the world.” – Craig R. Barrett – Chairman, Intel Corporation

Free tools and resources for educators support collaborative student-centered learning. Online thinking tools are active learning places where students engage in robust discussions, pursue investigations, analyze complex information, and solve problems.

 

Thinking tools

 

 

Visual Ranking Tool ›

Identify and refine criteria for assigning ranking to a list; and then debate differences, reach consensus, and organize ideas.

Seeing Reason Tool ›

Investigate relationships in complex systems, creating maps that communicate understanding.

Showing Evidence Tool ›

Construct well-reasoned arguments that are supported by evidence, using a visual framework.

 

 

 

Productivity tools

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Assessing Projects ›

Develop strategies for student-centered assessment and create your own from an Assessment library.

Help Guide ›

Find step-by-step instructions for hundreds of technical skills for commonly used software applications.

 

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Get Inspired


Written on August 13, 2008 – 7:22 pm | by kristydickson

I found this on youtube. It is a short (super fast) presentation of 71 ways to use ICT in your lessons. I found it too fast to read all the detail, so I had to pause it on the ones I was interested in.

 

 

 

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Welcome to my blog!


Written on August 13, 2008 – 7:05 pm | by kristydickson

I plan to use this to keep you all updated with all the new ideas I come across for ICT across the curriculum.

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