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Sharing & Organisational Tools

Free CPD

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

140

More

Name of Twitter user and image here.

Most recent Tweet here.

Oldest Tweet here.

Monitor Students Group Projects

Free Video Tools

Audio

Audioboom – works on Android, iOS and as a web app.

No account needed, but only web based.

Research & Search Engines

Specialist search enginesQuintura & Kidrex for Yr 7/8

Google Scholar for Yr12/13

Understanding the meaning of words tools

Shahi – Visual Dictionary

WordWriter new way of learning vocab through writing

You set assignments in WordWriter

Presentational Tools

www.padlet.com

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

Power Point on steroids

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

Now a free web

app !

Emaze your audience

Flipboard – Create digital magazines. Students can collaborate

My Yr9 students preferred sites!

Both are very simple & easy to use, have templates, backgrounds to choose from, cool fonts, clip art…

Canva – A new poster design tool

Timeline tool

Help children plan a story or prepare for a special event, or review stories from the past. Can add images to the descriptions. Saving capability allows them to come back to unfinished work.

Create timelines with

maps

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

Turn quotes into cool posters

Cool Interactive tools for the classroom

Plenary Quizzes

Mapping Tools

Maps are not just for Geographers!