Inspire Innovate
Sharing of interesting and useful resources
Heather and Sophie attended the Inspire Innovate ICT conference at the end of Term 1. The resources, tools and ideas gathered from the conference have been organised according to themes which may be of interest to staff. Please see below for what tickles your fancy.
Remember today's exit ticket! Share what you have learnt or what you wish to further explore in your teaching on our Padlet Wall at the end of the session.
Yong Zhao - Inspire Innovate ICT Conference 2013
Gaming
- Puppet Pals
- Xtranormal
- Toontastic
- Go Animate
- Voki
- Scaffold for designing a game with students
- Epic Win App
If interested, read about Black and William's 'Medals and Missions' here
Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world
Web Conferencing
Adobe Connect
Heather and Flor are administrators for Adobe Connect at BSPS.
Some ideas:
- Chat
- Polls for quizzes
- Buddy classes
- Start ratings – feedback and assessment
- Connecting year 6 students to year 7 students (peer relationships for transition)
- Staff training and collaboration
Informational videos:
- Demonstration
- E-learning demonstration (select 'watch the video')
Recording and Sharing
TimeToast
Information and Research
- Edcanvas (see demo below)
- Educreations (see demo below)
- Teachem
- TED-Ed (Take a tour)
- Gooru
- Teachertube
- Schooltube
- Show me
- Screencast-O-Matic (Take a tour)
- Watch Know Learn
- Fotobabble
How to create a canvas on Edcanvas
Educreations basics
Shared Platforms
- Edmodo
- Padlet (formerly called Wallwisher)
- Just Paste It
- Dropbox
- Shared Google Docs
LITERACY
- Visuwords (graphic dictionary/thesaurus)
- Wordnik (dictionary which draws results from multiple sources)
- Storybird
- Zooburst
- DebateGraph (see demo below)
- Comic Master
- Word Clouds (Worditout, Wordle, Tagxedo)
- Mapskip
- Spelling City
Debategraph: What is it?
Paperless Assessments
- Socrative
- Survey Monkey
- Quiz Revolution
- Google forms (see demo below)
- Edmodo and Adobe Connect can also achieve this
A tour of Google Forms
AUGMENTED REALITY
- QR Codes
- Aurasma
- Layar
- Theodolite
- Space Craft 3D
- Google Goggles (search the web using pictures)
- Junaio
- Wikitude
- Star Gazer
- Sun Seeker
- Fantastic Flying Books
- Google Art Project
Other handy sites
- Class Dojo
- URL Shortener
- Website Making (Weebly and Yola)
- Mathletics
- Evernote
- Diigo (online bookmarking)