Free Technology for teachers presentation to be given October 2015

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2. Sharing & Organisational Tools
Free CPD

3. 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.

6. Making you life easier - sharing

7. 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.

9. TAGGING!!!

11. Other sharing
tools

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

13. 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

14. The location of teachers who follow
me on twitter

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

16. 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.

17. Monitor Students
Group Projects

18. Free Video Tools

21. Quickcast – MAC app

23. Audio

24. Audioboom – works on
Android, iOS and as a web app.
No account needed,
but only web based.

25. Research & Search Engines

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

28. Understanding the meaning of
words tools

29. Shahi – Visual Dictionary

32. WordWriter new way of learning
vocab through writing
You set assignments
in WordWriter

33. Presentational Tools

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

37. Power Point on steroids

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

39. Emaze your audience

40. Flipboard–
Create digital
magazines.
Students can
collaborate

42. My Yr9 students preferred sites!
Both are very simple & easy to use, have templates, backgrounds to
choose from, cool fonts, clip art…

43. Canva – A new poster design tool

44. An amazing site where you can share
web resources

45. Timeline tool
Help children plan a story or prepare for a special event, or review stories from the
past. Can add images to the descriptions. Saving capability allows them to come back
to unfinished work.

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

48. Turn quotes into cool posters

49. Cool Interactive tools for the
classroom