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Millthorpe School Languages Blog: An outstanding video made by Eleanor Kettley-Tomlinson!
An outstanding video made by Eleanor Kettley-Tomlinson!
Eleanor has produced this video on daily routine in French. It is unbelieveable – click the link to take a look for yourself!
tags: French, video, secondlife

guessthewordle / FrontPage
Each Monday, Wednesday, & Friday a new wordle will be posted for [...]

CLI – Connecting classes trial
The project involved classes with students from two or more schools who received teaching and learning through “live” interaction using video conferencing equipment and shared interactive whiteboards across the DET wide area network. The combination of these individually “mainstream” technologies created a motivating connected learning environment that was more powerful than [...]

Learn Chinese – Free online mandarin audio courses
Learn Mandarin Chinese quickly and easily!
40 online lessons with audio, including reading, speaking, writing, modern vocabulary, grammar, calligraphy, examples and exercices. All texts and dialogs in mp3 format for download.
tags: mandarin, language, chinese, learning

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dougbelshaw.com/blog » Blog Archive » Acceptable Use Agreements, Definitions & Digital Guidelines
Over the past week I’ve been working on policies and documents relating to E-Learning and electronic resources at the Academy. The following are links to the Google Docs that were created with feedback from my Twitter network. They are very much still in [...]

In the lead up to the conference, I have been meeting with quite a few vendors. Some of these have been learning platform vendors. These guys have the unenviable task of trying to sell their product to schools who are not really clear on what they want to use it for. Some schools for example [...]

ICT games – Resource Topics – TES Connect
Great set of learning games. Many suitable for an IWB.
tags: resources, IWB, games, interactive

Staff ICT Skills Log Questions.rtf – Windows Live
A set of questions for surveying staff about ICT skills in a school.
tags: skills, checklist, audit, CPD, training

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iMovie 09
At a demonstration, I saw a number of features in iMovie 09 that I wished were in FCP and I wondered if there was a way to use iMovie 09 in conjunction with FCP, utilizing some of its features to supplement the FCP workflow, most importantly in the rough cut phase of editing, as [...]

Tinychat | Home
With Tinychat, you can create your own chatroom and invite people through one simple link. You can also embed your chatroom on your blog, myspace, personal site, and many other portals. You can even invite people through email and twitter. Try it, we’re sure you’ll like it!
tags: twitter, backchannel, web2.0, chat

Mobile Learning [...]

Langwitches » Web-based Activities & Resources for Elementary School Students
Really good list of links to great resources broken into hand categories
tags: resources, tools, web2.0, games, iwb

An expert’s guide to YouTube | Webware – CNET
Want to use YouTube like a pro? We’ve got some advanced tips on how to search, watch, and share. Read this blog [...]

ScreenToaster – Online screen recorder. Capture screencasts instantly.
This comes highly recommended by teachers who use it to do screencasts themselves or get students to record screencasts of their work. Looks like a great tool!
tags: web2.0, tools, screencast, howto, video

pre-1914 Poetry
GCSE Poetry Podcasts which could be used as an ideas base for students to do their [...]