Sharing your successful practices with others is an important part of the role of a educator. Traditionally you have probably shared your ideas, tips, tricks, and findings in-person with your grade level team, your district team, and with face-to-face audiences at regional and national conferences. However, with the current crop of digital apps and tools,
What to do with Web 2.0 tools: VR apps
Virtual Reality can take your students out of the classroom and into entirely new lands, environments and experiences — from global travel to outer space — and is primed to be the next big learning opportunity to integrate into the learning environment. Earlier in the year, we looked at the ‘New Vision for Education: Fostering Social and
What to do with Web 2.0 tools: ChickCam
Another insightful guest post from Matt Stockman, here he explains how to set up your very own ChickCam. Having a ‘chick hatching’ project in schools is becoming more and more popular, especially as advances in technology and broadband speeds have made it easier to make sure students never miss a thing — even outside of
What to do with Web 2.0 tools: An introduction to Thinglink
In this post we hear from Matt Stockman, who is sharing another handy free Web 2.0 tool and some ideas for using it in your classroom. Learn more about Matt at the bottom of the article. They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but when you need to convey a lot of information
June 2016: Make the Web work for you
Want to make the Web work for you? Then IFTTT is the tool you must use! IFTTT, If This Than That, is an online tool and mobile app, IF, that allows you to connect two online-connected services you already use and link them together to automatically precipitate an event or complete a task. This linking is called a
What to do with web 2.0 tools: Word clouds
At work I have a reputation for being a bit obsessed with word clouds. I do love them, but because I think they have great value in the classroom. If you’ve not encountered them before, I’m going to divide this post into word clouds that are created from prewritten text and those that are created
What to do with web 2.0 Tools – Padlet
A top Web 2.0 tool – Padlet Padlet is basically a digital noticeboard. If I had to choose my top Web 2.0 tools, Padlet would be up there. If you haven’t found it yet, just click on this link. You can start creating straight away, or sign up (it’s free) to have all your Padlets
What to do with web 2.0 tools: Shortening web addresses
A useful tool if you don’t know it already is a URL shortener – this takes a web address and shortens it for ease of use. Here are a few sites that do this job: https://bitly.com | http://tinyurl.com | https://goo.gl STEPS TO USE: Copy your original web page link (the URL) Paste into the