The innovate use of ICT in teaching (and learning!)

1. The innovate use of ICT in teaching (and learning!) Glogster http://www.glogster.com/ Online powerpoints Multiple users work at once on the same file Presenting research Are your classes PowerPoints dull? Copy and pasted from Wikipedia? Prezi http://prezi.com Hard to copy and paste Great for mindmapping 300% More dynamic Other ideas: Make glogs (online posters) on http://glogster.com Make a storyboard on http://www.xtranormal.com/ PreZentit http://prezentit.com/ Online powerpoints Multiple users work at once on the same file Webtools… Are free to use websites that help you do stuff http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/home These are organised by type Go to this website, try a few out. How could you use one of these in a lesson? I challenge you to use at least one of these in a lesson before the summer holidays. Websites Physics website http://lwsphysics.shorturl.com Get your own free, easy-to-make website at http://www.yola.com Using t’internet Want students to learn collaboratively? Make resources for each other? Ask each other for help? Collaborating Want students to learn collaboratively? Make resources for each other? Ask each other for help? Try a wiki http://www.wikispaces.com Insert a discussion forum. Add a survey Insert cool things from http://www.widgetbox.com Great for KS5! Want an alternative to post-it notes? http://corkboard.me/ Want a whole class to collaborate on a piece of work? http://openetherpad.org/

2. But wait…. There’s more! Webcams How can I use one in my teaching, I hear you ask? 1) Peer marking Put student work under webcam Get student to talk about their work Get other students to comment on work 2) Demos Plug webcam in Open webcam in My Computer Point webcam at thing you want to demo Go home satisfied that students didn’t need to crowd around the front desk whilst pushing each other! Starters Do you have a starter of pictures? Want to make it more interesting? http://www.picturetrail.com/ Is watching phototropism like watching paint dry? Try time lapse photography. Loads of apps for free on smart phones (e.g. Motion Pictures) Can do the same with a webcam too http://tinyurl.com/d3wj2mr Photography What to improve the image of your teaching? Engaging students out of lessons Want students to access a link, but its too long/complicate/too much effort to type? Why not shorten URLs using: http://tiny.cc/ or http://tinyurl.com/ http://dl.dropbox.com/u/81485606/EM%20Podcast.mp3 Becomes…. http://db.tt/9iMvsgyb Or generate a QR code http://www.qrstuff.com/ Which becomes… Hmmm.. Could this be stuck in planners? Put QR codes on homework sheets (to promote background reading) Podcasting Facts about Podcasting Podcasts are really easy to make Children spend more time on their smart phones than on doing your homework How to make a podcast: Make a rough plan in advance of the topics to be covered Record yourself talking (pick a quiet place to do it) If you want to do any editing, use Audacity (free, easy to use software) Upload the podcast (e.g. to a public folder on https://www.dropbox.com/ (free storage) Don’t want to make the podcasts yourself? Get the kids to make revision podcasts! Sick of badly written, plagiarised coursework drafts? Get the kids to check the quality of their work on PaperRaterhttp://paperrater.com/ Read more about this project at http://tinorace.co.uk (See the ICT Innovations category of my blog) See what I did at http://tinyurl.com/co6f7tp Do you want to improve your student’s ability to take independent notes? Put a timer in PowerPoint slides and ask the kids to make notes on the slides they see http://tinyurl.com/c8qtnjy