2. Twitter is an excellent tool for communicating with
other professionals
You can get instant answers to your questions
All of the online tools I will show you were shared
with me on Twitter
Best practice, blogs, information from DFE
I downloaded the White Paper within minutes of it
going online thanks to tweets
6. To analyse the content of a website
To analyse a speech
To analyse an essay, picking out the main
themes
To use as shelf ends, showing Dewey
To use as a poster
7. http://animoto.com
Create a short free video, or get a free
educational account for slightly longer
ones
Promote author events, visits, books –
whatever you choose
Animoto on school libraries
8. • Click on Create, once on the website, and then choose
Short video, which are the free ones
Use this
button to
import
pictures
from your
computer
Put your
pictures in
these
boxes, in
the order in
which you
want them.
You can
only have
15 pictures
and text.
Use this tab to add music, your own or
Animoto’s preselected range
Use this tab to finalise your
Animoto. Effects are added by
Animoto, and can’t be changed
9. Go to http://storybird.com
Either sign in to create your own stories and save
them, or you can create a story right away
Simple, easy and quick to use. Great for
encouraging creative writing
http://storybird.com/books/an-unexpected-party/?
token=nwg3nv
10. Here’s one I made earlier …
http://www.heromachine.co
m/
This needs to be
supervised, but use it to
end a lesson where
students have been
creating their own
superhero stories
Then ask them to create a
character on Heromachine
to illustrate their story
11. http://piclits.com
Drag and drop words on to photos to create
poems
Sign in to free account if you want to save
Can be use for starters or plenaries on IWB
Can embed clickable preview, but whole thing
must be viewed on website
12. Getting boys to read:
http://bookzone4boys.blogspot.com/
Library Advocacy: http://heartoftheschool.edublogs.org
Literature for Lads:
http://www.literatureforlads.com/