use in schools

Jonathan Brown Staff Tutor

brownj@angus.gov.uk

will definitely use it when I get back to school. 

Check out these links to ways it had been used; 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4160466.stm http://www.timrylands.com/more-on-myst/ http://archive.futurelab.org.uk/resources/publications-reports-articles/vision-magazine/VISION-Article1555

summer term.

resource on the web.  

Check out these free textbooks for developing skills

http://learnscratch.org/

Learning info & resource

www.timrylands.com/

www.futurelab.org.uk/

download it here;

www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=10056

support material here;

www.microsoft.com/en-gb/download/details.aspx?id=18229

otherwise you have to pay £5 a month.

www.animoto.com

core MIE skills such as 'colour', 'camera' etc.

You can get a free 30 day trial - which I have found is long enough to do what you want to do. If you sign up

make sure you set all the security settings correctly - contact me if you need help with this.

www.bitstripsforschools.com/

or a story? This is a fun way to get the imagination

working :)

and best of it's FREE!

Possible use as a homework activity to be 

completed with parents?

www.teachyourmonstertoread.com

to each brick, rebuild a significant local building then using your 3D model as a guide to create drawings of the building from

interesting angles or single point perspective drawings!

The only limit is your imagination.

Pros - lots of good tutorials, good final product & it's free

Cons - it would take time to get to grips with

Possible long-term homework challenge?

www.alice.org/kelleher/storytelling/download.html

Mysavingsquest & playspent are excellent, the football game is not so great, but may appeal to a certain

audience.

http://financialsoccer.com/

yourself, or generate characters for stories/games.

The second site produce South Park style avatars.

free avatars of yourself

http://sp-studio.de  southpark style character generator

There is a free version so you can download it and draw your own conclusions, I'd be interested to hear

any feedback about this resource.

Who would be posting on their site, what would they be saying?

A great new way to explore stories!

http://www.classtools.net/fb/home/page

Perfect for watching clips in the classroom!

You will need to sign-up first, but this is free and provides easy access to sound clips.

Costs $39 per year giving one teacher

log-in and 125 student log-ins. 

Very well reviewed web based product which pupils can access anywhere.

This web app lets you generate your own QR codes which pupils scan, revealing further information for an interactive

treasure hunt.

If you try this can you please let me know how you get on

Use maps to illustrate historical events... This one has to be seen to be fully understood.

http://toy-a-day.blogspot.co.uk/

www.buildyourwildself.com

"All About Explorers was developed by a group of teachers as a means of teaching students about the Internet. Although the Internet can be a tremendous resource for gathering information about a topic, we found that students often did not have the skills to discern useful information from worthless data.

So we set out to develop a series of lessons for elementary age students in which we would demonstrate that just because it is out there for the searching does not mean it is worthwhile."

Create a free profile, create the work you want your students to work through then share the access details with your students. Socrative generates an excell spreadsheet showing student response and emails this straight to you :)