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Take a digital image and make it talk? Easier than you might think. CrazyTalk 6 is an easy and powerful tool for generating talking characters from an image or photo and facial animation for video, websites and widget. Many schools are using to bring...
The Editable IWB Dictionary (ictgames.com) lets you store useful words and view them in a 3D scrolling dictionary. This can be really useful when working with Guided Groups in Literacy, making the IWB a powerful spelling resource during the main activity...
A selection of Textease resources with a Christmas theme can be found by following the link below. You can also find you way there via this pathway: Software Tab > Textease (LHS navigation) > Christmas Textease Activities http://www.kenttrustweb...
East Kent 16 March 3:30pm - St Mildreds Primary School , Saint Mildred's Avenue, Broadstairs, Thanet, (2DiY and 2Simple French) West Kent 18 March 9:30 - 12 Woodlands Junior Tonbridge 18 March 1:30 - 4pm St John's Primary , Southborough, Tunbridge...
Access Apps , a collection of over 50 open source and freeware programmes that can be run from a USB stick, has won the 2008 Scottish Open Source Award for Education Excellence. Worth a look. "AccessApps will run without needing to install anything...
Karl Newman from Sevenoaks Primary sent me a link that I just had to share! Three children from Karl's Year One class had been using 2Create A Story to write about 'Sam The Spaceman'. They used a USB microphone to record their voices. Once...
The Maths and Literacy games pages have changed over the summer. www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games There were two purposes for this..... firstly to provide more help information for each game. As some of the games are indecipherable! Secondly I wanted all...
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?