This document provides information about free technology tools that can help teachers. It discusses using RSS feeds to easily keep up with changing web content without revisiting sites. It also mentions social bookmarking tools like Diigo that allow users to bookmark, tag, and annotate web pages. Additional sharing tools mentioned include using RSS feeds to create your own content page and sharing on Twitter or Facebook. The document also discusses using Twitter to build professional networks and engage in continuing professional development. It provides examples of other free tools for creating presentations, visual dictionaries, search engines for different subject areas, collaborating online through Padlet and VoiceThread, and creating digital magazines and infographics.

1. Free technology
for teachers

2. RSS Feeds
• Make your life easier with RSS feeds.
• RSS feeds deliver regularly changing web
content to you. No need to keep revisiting
sites.
• Easy to keep them all in one site with a reader
– Feedly or G2reader.

5. Making you life easier - sharing

6. Social bookmaking
• A way to share and a way to organise your RSS
feeds.
• Best example – Diigo
• Diigo allows you to bookmark, tag, highlight
and add sticky notes to articles.
• A great research tool and a great collaborative
platform – able to form groups.
• You are also able to recommend content.

8. TAGGING!!!

10. Other sharing
tools

11. Use RSS feed, scoop articles and create own page, share on twitter or dept facebook
page or simply receive a daily e-mail.

12. Making your life easier - twitter
• A micro blogging site *140 characters
• You follow fellow teachers to build up a
network
• Use withYr12/Yr13
• #bsbenergy
• Excellent CPD

13. The location of teachers who follow
me on twitter

14. What are you doing?
140
Update
Summarize the content of the
lesson in 140 characters.
16

15. Home Profile Find People Settings Help Sign out
What are you doing?
Update
Home
Unknown
Home
Following Followers Tweets
100 89 100
@unknown
Direct Messages
Favourites
Search Q
RSS Feed
140
More
Name of Twitter user and
image here.
Most recent Tweet here.
Oldest Tweet here.

16. 22
Text conversations between
two interested parties,
alternate form of audience.
http://transl8it.com/

20. http://wordsense.me

23. Shahi – Visual Dictionary

24. Specialist search engines
Quintura&Kidrex for Yr 7/8
Google Scholar for Yr12/13

25. www.padlet.com
Collaborate, add youtube videos, photos, text and embed in
your website/ VLE.

26. Voice Thread
Upload images, documents, videos – they appear like a slide show, which can
be embedded into your VLE/website. You can then provide an audio for your
slideshow or let the students comment through audio, web video, or just text.

27. Power Point on steroids

28. Free presentation software which forces
students to focus on the visuals, as little
text can be added.

31. History example

32. Allows students to create cartoon strips and
alter the mood of the photo.

33. Flipboard–
Create digital
magazines.
Students can
collaborate

36. Create infographics