Speak up
Having invested in Dragon Dictation and used the free app on my iphone to make quick notes on books I was reading, I am a quiet fan of voice to text or VTT. Google Chrome has a built-in speech recognition …
e-Tools
Software, hardware, webware for education.
Brandon G was just on TV!
OMG! I just surfed to find the Brandon Generator on during the break on Channel 4. The same BG we have been exploring and writing for in class! Get 7a3! The film is an extension of Microsoft’s ‘Beauty of The …
Image Spike
ImageSpike is a photo web design application that helps turn your static images into rich interactive media experiences that can be shared and measured. ImageSpike lets you overlay hotspots, with social, collaborative and interactive capabilities. Once you have tagged photo it is yours to share, embed or publish. Then, through a …
Essential teachers tool box – tool
Web Screenshots, an online tool that captures full-length screenshot image of any “public” web page with a click. It is brilliantly simple. Paste the address (URL) of any web page and the tool will capture a screeshot of the full page …
Socrative
Socrative has been on my radar for a little while are it appeared in RSS feed in a few different places. It falls under a category of web based student response systems, and so far is one of my favourite. It was …
The most learning you will ever experience with a scroll wheel
I do not have time to do this website justice. Nor do I have time to write a proper review. I am sorry, as it is one of the most exciting resources I have seen as webware for teaching for …
Even more with textwall
So, two points to pick up here. At the end of the PSRE lesson I was able to push the student responses to Wordle. This automatically gave me an overview of the lesson, warts and all. To be fair, a …
B!ang! Rocket Fuel for #PGCE and #NQT Teachers
The social web. What is it? Why should educationalists give a damn? Why should #PGCE and #NQT teachers in particular give a damn? Three simple benefits, time efficiencies, professional mentoring and personal reflection. The social web emphasises the social relations …