The main purpose of this blog is to share good ideas, websites and resources that can be used in an educational environment. Whereever possible I will link in the page where I found the idea.
So lets begin with a few that I've come across from this blogger based in the States:
http://experimenting-in-education.blogspot.co.uk/
And from here (so far) the following websites have been of interest.
A way of collaboratively sharing powerpoint presentations. Could be very useful across a department, to easily share a powerpoints that are commonly used. Of course, this would be even more powerful across multiple schools...
In my view, a far more interesting take on presenting ideas and information. Powerful web based presentation tool, which if used properly,
can be far more effective than powerpoint.
A free, education based social networking site. You will need to get parents permissions before inviting students to join this site, but the amount of resources that are available is stunning. This is almost everything that Kaleidos needed to be, it's just lacking the ability to upload your own resources, it relies heavily on resources being already available on the web. That being said, combine this with a dropbox or Skydrive account, and this could be a very powerful tool.
Allows you to create an online noticeboard, from which you can pin text and photos to. Could be useful for in class dicussions which can then be saved for future reference.
Allows you to create your own cloud library of digital information, images documents, websites, sticky note that you can then access from anywhere, and share with anyone. Much like a cloud based OneNote.
Miss the Shared Pages of Kaleidos and want to make your own website? Then weebly might just be the answer. Quickly create your own web page, and upload videos, photos and files easily and share it with your students.
Want to show a YouTube clip, and want a 100% guarantee it will work in your lesson? Want to embed a video into your powerpoint presentation? Try KeepVid, which will allow you to download the video from a URL. As usual, please be aware of copyright infringement when using this website.
