Free technologyfor teachers

RSS Feeds

• Make your life easier with RSS feeds.• RSS feeds deliver regularly changing web

content to you. No need to keep revisiting sites.

• Easy to keep them all in one site with a reader – Feedly or G2reader.

Making you life easier - sharing

Social bookmaking

• A way to share and a way to organise your RSS feeds.

• Best example – Diigo• Diigo allows you to bookmark, tag, highlight

and add sticky notes to articles.• A great research tool and a great collaborative

platform – able to form groups.• You are also able to recommend content.

TAGGING!!!

Other sharing tools

Use RSS feed, scoop articles and create own page, share on twitter or dept facebook page or simply receive a daily e-mail.

Making your life easier - twitter• A micro blogging site *140 characters• You follow fellow teachers to build up a

network• Use withYr12/Yr13• #bsbenergy• Excellent CPD

The location of teachers who follow me on twitter

What are you doing? 140

Update

Tweet it

Summarize the content of the lesson in 140 characters.

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Home Profile Find People Settings Help Sign out

What are you doing?

Update

Home

Unknown

Home

Following Followers Tweets

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@unknown

Direct Messages

Favourites

Search Q

RSS Feed

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More

Name of Twitter user and image here.

Most recent Tweet here.

Oldest Tweet here.

Text it…

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Text conversations between two interested parties,

alternate form of audience.

http://transl8it.com/

http://www.thinglink.com/scene/396209197588414466

http://www.classtools.net/

http://wordsense.me

Shahi – Visual Dictionary

Specialist search enginesQuintura & Kidrex for Yr 7/8

Google Scholar for Yr12/13

www.padlet.com

Collaborate, add youtube videos, photos, text and embed in your website/ VLE.

Voice Thread

Upload images, documents, videos – they appear like a slide show, which can be embedded into your VLE/website. You can then provide an audio for your slideshow or let the students comment through audio, web video, or just text.

Power Point on steroids

Free presentation software which forces students to focus on the visuals, as little text can be added.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_EoJtCtOhio%23t=118

History example

Allows students to create cartoon strips and alter the mood of the photo.

Flipboard – Create digital magazines. Students can collaborate

Create infographics

http://www.metta.io/