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Google has launched Lively , a new social network built around the concept of each user creating an avatar and a personal virtual room that can be embedded anywhere on the Web. Although, as with all pupblic chatroom, we can't see Lively being a safe...
Just to let you know the 2 Simple offer for the entire software collection at £999 will end on July 15th. For more information visit http://www.2simple.com/
Taggalaxy is one of many online tools that that is a search engine for Flickr. ( Flickr is a photo sharing site powered by Yahoo! that allows users to upload and share their photos. http://taggalaxy.de/ The way it works is that you type in your key word...
As part of the 2Simple ' 10 Year Birthday Celebrations' , for short period of time schools are able to purchase site licences for the entire collection of 2Simple software ( 28 titles and 2 online titles that could be used at home) for either...
Adventure Rock is a 3D virtual environment offering exploration and creative opportunities for children to experiment with music, drawing and animation. The online world is a themed island built for the BBC’s CBBC. Children explore the world and use message...
In an English activity this week 5-6 year old children use their developing understanding of context and grammatical cues to help them predict hidden words in a text. Simple turtle graphics using a freely available online application provides a mathematical...
The Top 100 Tools for Learning Spring 2008 list has now been finalised from the contributions of 155 learning professionals from education, workplace learning and continuing professional development. http://c4lpt.co.uk/recommended/top100.html
James Hollis over at Teachers Love Smartboards has posted a link to a fun site that will allow your pupils to create, share, and save pictures using a " Lite Brite" online simulator . http://notian.net/litebrite/
Move over Google Earth and Google Sky , Microsoft is releasing a new product called WorldWide Telescope (WWT) It looks absolutely stunning. Watch the brief video at TED , then bookmark the new WorldWide Telescope website for more details. WorldWide Telescope...
PacWriter is a free educational arcade-style typing game similar to the classic Pacman game. It is fun and addictive. Your character, either Mr. Pacwri or Ms. Pacwri, is chased by dangerous ghosts. Whenever you meet an obstacle, you quickly type the letter...
The following tip comes from Cecil Road Primary school: "One of the problems with MSW logo is that it draws things too quickly and so in an instant what might be quite a complicated procedure seems to "appear" on the screen. To control the speed of the...
Education City are offering every Kent School a free 8 week trial from 14th Jan until the 10th March. All Kent schools will be sent a login and password by Education City via email and also through the post. Existing customers are entitled to a 10% discount...
BETT 2008 has thousands of educational ICT products and services on display, live demonstrations and a range of exciting show features. What impact will visiting the show have on your school? Please share with us your favourite new products/software or...
Now there's an exciting title! www.peda.com/poly/ has a software download which I find really useful. You can choose from an enormous variety of solid shapes, rotate them and then explode the net. You have full control over the speed of the rotation and...
Jing is a fantastic and powerful program from TechSmith that can be downloaded for free. Using Jing it is easy to capture still screen images or to create video screencasts (recordings of what is on your computer screen), and then share them. Images or...
TOP 100 TOOLS 2007 lists the most popular tools for learning as selected by over 100 learning professionals during the summer of 2007. I wonder how many of the tools you are already using in your classroom /school?
A fundamental change in the way in which pupils access software now appears to be happening as more and more software is being made available through web browsers on the internet. For some time Google, the internet search engine, have been offering Google...
Hot Potatoes is an online “lesson construction” software suite that allows you to create Web-based interactive activities. It includes six applications, enabling you to create interactive multiple-choice, short-answer, jumbled-sentence, crossword, matching...
We’re hearing a lot of talk about our eco-footprint these days but how do we know how big ours is? zerofootprints.com enables children to calculate their carbon footprint. By simply answering 25 fun interactive questions, pupils will easily discover how...
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Have a look the following video on the BBC site introducing this new online software...
Many Kent schools are now having ago at Podcasting. The Downs CE Primary School, in Walmer, have their very own radio station. Downs FM is famous both here in Kent and now worldwide. Their DJs were at this Years ICT Conference in Maidstone interviewing...
Windows XP will stop being available on new PCs from the end of January 2008. Microsoft has confirmed that from 31 January 2008 large PC makers, such as Dell, HP and Toshiba, will no longer be able to buy licenses for the software so they can install...
At a recent ITN meeting , I was asked about a larger class size for the Ready Register activity. You will need to download the 40-user version from our Early Years Games . I know of one secondary school teacher with a new IWB who is secretly using this...
A primary school is considering putting Open Office on all their computers instead of Microsoft Office. The main reason is cost. Open Office is free. But will it be the right choice for them? What is Open Office? Open Office is a completely free open...
There are many useful videos on the internet but not all are accessible at school because of the internet filtering software. To get round this you can download videos at home to use in schools. TeacherTube www.teachertube.com You need to login in (registration...
I use the print screen (PrtScr) on my keyboard quite a lot to capture screenshots. It takes a snapshot of my whole screen which I can then paste in to my image software or a document. ( Pressing ALT PrtScr will only take a snap shot of the current active...
Through out the month of June, free training events on using Textease CT will be taking place all over Kent. They will be led by Doug Dickinson, who has 40 years in primary education, and is now an independent ICT consultant working on all aspects of...