Often when you are at a life-changing professional development event, such as the recent Google T eacher Academy in New York, you want to ha...
30 Days of Webtools #27: Discover the benefits of YouTube in the classroom
Recently I have become very aware of the benefits of YouTube for an educator. There are amazing resources for the classroom - one can so eas...
30 Days of webtools: #26 Use Slideshare to share online PowerPoints
Slideshare ( http://www.slideshare.net/ ) is one of my favourite free programmes. It is a way of easily presenting information online. It c...
30 Days of webtools: #25 Create a Prezi
What is a Prezi? Prezi is another presentation tool that is fascinating to use.You will find Prezi at http://prezi.com . It is a zooming dig...
30 Days of webools #24: Create a MentorMob playlist
What is MentorMob? It’s that word ‘curating’ that is popping up again! I found MentorMob , a curating tool, by chance when surfing the Net ...
30 days of webtools: #23 Use Mybrainshark to create online Powerpoints with voice plus more...
Mybrainshark is a place where you can easily create videos from your PowerPoint slides...but not only from PowerPoint slides! You can also a...
30 Days of webtools: #22 Use Edmodo or Obami as free interactive classroom management tools
What are Edmodo and Obami? Both Edmodo and Obami are free classroom management tools that help you as a teacher make your classroom into ...
30 days of webtools: #21 Get organised using a Livebinder
What is a Livebinder? There is a lovely, free online site you may have heard of called LiveBinders ( http://www.livebinders.com/ ) . It is...
30 days of webtools: #20 Use Screencast-o-matic to make superb screencasts
Screencasting is an amazing programme to use if you want to quickly show someone how to do something on the computer. It easily creates a vi...
30 Days of webtools #19: Picasa, Photopeach and other photo sharing sites
Nowadays there are so many different and amazing things you can do with your photographs online. You can store them, create gorgous slidesho...
30 Days of webtools #18: Use Spiderscribe to create a more advanced mindmap
I also like to use Spiderscribe to mindmap as you can do so much more with it than with bubbl.us . With Spiderscribe you can easily make a ...
30 days of webtools #17: Use bubbl.us to create simple mindmaps
Why mindmap? Mindmapping is a great thinking tool. It has been suggested that this visual technique can improve learning and study efficienc...