Cool tools for school

Look here for an amazing array of web2.0 tools. Lots of widgets for the blog as well as almost too much other stuff!

This came from Larry Ferlazzo's site which is overbursting with great ideas, with a particular focus on EAL/ESL.

Wordle in the classroom

Have a look below


for some great ways to use wordle in your classroom. I found this set of slides through clif's notes. I'll definitely use it early on in the new academic year to display children's own self descriptions.

Twitter

Want to know about how twitter was formed, and how it has evolved from its original concept...from the mouth of its creator?

Click on the blog post title.

Wordle...how to use it in class

Wordle is a great tool for either showing words in an interesting way or summarising the high frequency words contained in a document or website.

Wordle Ideas

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I have been a subscriber to this site for a year now and there is always something interesting or useful.  I have passed on suggestions from it many times.

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100 web tools

Found this through Angela Maiers twitter feed.

Full of great ideas for presenting, notetaking, recording and mentions different learning styles too.

Monday 9th March - Colin, Ben, Anthony

We met and decided that if we meet next week briefly on Monday 16th, then aim to collect all of our reviews which point towards Project Based Learning for the following Monday, 23rd March. This would allow us to collect information on this site by the following week, 30th March. We could invite along MAMI and others. We could also include suggestions for ways forward...Action research, Year Group Short Term Projects...