Entries Tagged as 'New tools'

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Movie making with 3d animations

Here is a demonstration of a short (1 minute) movie I made with a free open source product.
If you would like to learn how to use it, we are running free PD online in Elluminate. Check out the calendar for the PD on http://theedublogger.edublogs.org/free-live-web-events/
The product can be embedded into html (as seeen below) or shared [...]

Sunday, March 29th, 2009

Can you afford not to use Photopeach?

Here is a tool you can afford.
Try using Photopeach as a FREE, quick and easy interactive video tool. It is a perfect tool for giving students the capacity to comment and contribute to your video, or make their own and share it.
In just a few quick steps you have a nice product:
1. Upload photos
2. Swap [...]

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

How to create your own iGoogle page

Now why would I want to do that?
You wouldn’t be the first person to ask that question! At first you might wonder about its use, but the more web features you use, the more useful it becomes.
iGoogle allows you to to choose the things that you find useful or fun on a web search page [...]

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009

My top 5 tools for digital storytelling

Why have I chosen these tools?

I just LOVE editing movie footage and have recently worked on a movie crew of an amateur production of a movie. Serious movie makers certainly wouldn’t have used any of my recommended tools! So why did I choose them? Because time is precious for teachers!  The [...]

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

How to Teach with Blogs and Wikis

How do you learn best?

Learning is an active, social process. Using Blogs and Wikis for teaching is embracing the  concept that students don’t learn best passively, they learn best from using experiential and constructivist learning.

Above: Kolb’s Learning Cycle
Using blogs and/or wikis for teaching is a great solution for encouraging reflection and collaboration [...]

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

What on earth is a QTim Player?

Do you need a good tool for onsite assessment?
You might like to check out the QTImPlayer for mobile devices which operates on any hand-held mobile device with Microsoft® Windows Mobile® 2005 or 2006 software.
A portable device running Windows Mobile® 2005 or 2006 is loaded with a QTI assessment application for performing on-site assessment. The assessment [...]