Many thanks to Carole, Jon, Ian, Gary and Simon for their brilliant contributions to this half-plenary session! I promised to post the links and/or sources...
Carole's offering was based on Moodle; the system itself is free, but of course Castle's implementation of it and content based on it is protected, so I can't pass it on.
Jon's work is based on using the under-used interactive potential of PowerPoint (tm, blah) but we can't guarantee that the macros will work just as downloaded.
He recommended http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resources/ as a general resource,but go here and you will find his own material.
For the music-- http://www.televisiontunes.com/ is a good starting point.
And go to http://www.wordle.net/ to create word maps of any body of text.
Incidentally, Jon is leaving the Royal Navy at the end of the year and is hoping to take his skills to a college or university environment. To contact him with any queries, translate jongarthwaite510 (at) hotmail.com into a valid email address.
Ian's use of clickers in numeracy work with prisoners is set out here:
Gary's short but intensive presentation on the range of collaborative tools available, the support from expert communities, and ways in which well-established web tools such as Twitter can be harnessed for educational purposes:
...and Simon brought it all together showing how free tools can be enlisted to create a DIY VLE;
Just in case the link to the demo does not work directly, it is here; http://diyvle.wikispaces.com
It can be difficult to use Moodle unless you have a server handy, but it does have many advantages over ad hoc systems. Visit my wiki for details or visit http://diyvle.freewebclass.com/ to see how you can have your own free hosting.
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