Tuesday, 7 October 2014

Technology and the classroom-- links


Forwarded from Mark Tinney: sources from his session at the Study Day:
 
Flipping the Classroom
http://www.khanacademy.org/
http://ed.ted.com
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/teaching/resources/tools/xerte-online-toolkits.aspx
        Screencast tools – Screenr, Presentme, Camstudio
Cool Stuff
http://www.stumbleupon.com/
http://www.gapminder.org/
http://www.ted.com
http://www.benettonplay.com/toybox.php
http://www.qrstuff.com
Presentation Tools
http://www.slideshare.net                      http://www.prezi.com
http://www.powtoon.com
Assessment tools
http://polleverywhere.com                     http://Playbrighter.com   
http://www.Sporcle.com
Online Storage and collaboration
http://gmail.com  (look for google drive)
http://dropbox.com or https://www.box.com/
http://titanpad.com

A list of Apps to consider and install
Apple
Android
RED LASER – reads bar and QR codes.
QR CODE READER     
Put things off
Assignment planner free
Imovie – paid app, but great movie editor.
Magisto – Magical Video editor
Ianki flashcards - – Gapped recall app that allows you to create flash cards on a system that learns what you know and what you don’t.
MemoDroid – Gapped recall app that allows you to create flash cards on a system that learns what you know and what you don’t.
Google Drive or Gdrive – 5gb of free online storage and allows you to create and edit Microsoft word, excel and PowerPoint files.
Google Drive – 5gb of free online storage and allows you to create and edit Microsoft word, excel and PowerPoint files.
TED – Great talks from remarkable people free to the world.
TED – Great talks from remarkable people free to the world.
HD elements; The Elements (£4.99) – awesome worth every penny.
Elements – periodic table and/or periodic droid
Imathematics
Mathematics
A Level maths core 1 -
Dropbox – 2gb of free online storage.
Morfo booth
Lookout mobile – virus security and theft tracking.
Evernote – allows users to create to-do-lists, take notes and record voice reminders.
Evernote – allows users to create to-do-lists, take notes and record voice reminders.
Dropbox – 2gb of free online storage.
Color Note – a note taking app that allows users to take notes and edit them on the go.  Offers a sticky note environment, a calendar and to-do-list options.
Google Maps
Google Maps
Educreations interactive Whiteboard – interactive recordable whiteboard.
Sync  Space – whileboard app – used to create drawings and documents.
Mobile Podcaster – (£1.49) – podcast creator.
Iblug is free, but new so unrated.
Audioboo – a free web tool where users can record their audio clips and share them with others.
Idea flight – allows you to send presentations to other users logged in on their ipads.
Tape a talk – allows users to record voice notes, voice memos and several other audio formats.  You can even record when the display is off.
ITunes U
AndroidMedia – a video editing app for Android that allows its users to create and edit their videos on the go.
Revision App – The Ultimate revision app.
Minus – allows its users to upload and share files between their Android devices and their computers. 50GB
Khan Academy – Mobil access to the Khan academy and all the educational videos available from Khan academy.org.
WiFi file transfer – allows users to transfer files from an Android device to any other device on the same WiFi network.
Edmodo – this is a VLE website which you can set up for your learners.
AnyDo – allows users to create to-do lists by speaking into their device.
Mindjet - allows users to create awesome mind maps and diagrams.
Mindjet – allows users to create awesome mind maps and diagrams.
Qwiki – great app that talks through Wikipedia articles in two minute videos.
One Note – enables users to take notes very easily and on the go. Windows live ID required.


Also, some of the teachers who work in prisons had asked for some ideas so can you also please post this:

For those who teach in centres without internet access you might want to look at the software available at the link below.  Tarsia Formulator is built for maths but works really well with any test entry.  It is a simple tool which will allow you to create simple or complex question/answer dominoes for revision activities or even for concept mapping.  It is totally free and pretty powerful.
http://download.cnet.com/Formulator-Tarsia/3000-2051_4-10584458.html