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- 2. Innovative sites/Resources A collection of innovative sites that are used within education.
- 3. Voicethread www.voicethread.com Awesome educational tool that allows students to manipulate/draw and comment on pictures or videos. They can Thread together a series of images by video comments, voice comments, written text or by using a phone.
- 4. Voki www.voki.com Talking avatar, particulally good for MFL but also good to use as a way of getting across Lesson Objectives, with lower ability classes or EAL students.
- 5. www.polleverywhere.com Absolute top notch resource for secondary school students, engaging and current. The web site supplys a phone number and a 4 didgit code to text in answers to a pre set question and then it may be displayed in either real time (watch answers appear) or downloaded. 'i have used this resource extensively, here are a few ways that i feel it can support learning - -To show progress (how have you met the lesson objectives) as a plenary. -To give students more say in what and how they would like to learn (text me what you would like to do next lesson from these choices) -Whole class responses to questions.
- 6. Wetoku www.wetoku.com Talking head/interview site, meet, record and share. Good resource for GCSE students in particular, revision could be created by individual students and shared.
- 7. www.posterous.com Really solid e-learning resource that enables groups to work collabarotively on blogs and store work online. I have used it extensively and have my year 11 class mentor the year 9 and 10 students on their blogs. Brilliantly simple