Teaching+with+ICT

Software and online resources Wiki - lots of resources for discreet and cross curricular ICT tools. Full of great if you are using an ICT room. Educational Origami Teaching using ICT wiki

=Ideas for every lesson - no ICT room required!= Use your dataprojector to help to maintain pace by displaying a countdown timer [|online stopwatch] during a time limited activity.

If you would like to make use of videos from blocked sites such as YouTube, use this site to download them at home [|media converter]

Online games can be used with the whole class using the interactive whiteboard or projector, or in the ICT room as part of a lesson. [|Classtools] Make your own games [|What2learn]Make and share games, registration required [|BBC Bitesize KS3] [|BBC Bitesize KS4]

The class can create a learning journey, diary or blog using many types of software (MS Word, Powerpoint, online blog or VLE discussion forum). At the end of each lesson a small group of pupils can add to the diary, recording what they have learnt today. This will build up over a unit of work and can be used for revision.

Use an interactive board or projector for spider diagrams and brain storming activities. This allows you to save them for use in the next lesson or later in the course. The class can reflect and add/edit their ideas.

Some new ideas for the ICT room....
As an alternative to creating Powerpoints, why not try Prezzi? The site includes helpful tutorials to get started. Great for collecting research and presenting ideas. [|www.prezi.com]

Photos + video + music, edited quickly to create great movies [|www.animoto.com] create and share online comics [|www.comicbrush.com] work collaboratively [|www.etherpoint.com] lets several people at different computers work on one document.

Subjects
[|KCC subject specific pages] Excellent Science Wiki Music - create your own tracks online www.jamstudio.com