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Caroline RocheLead Practitioner for the Humanities 2011
Twitter is an excellent tool for communicating with other professionals
You can get instant answers to your questions
All of the online tools I will show you were shared with me on Twitter
Best practice, blogs, information from DFE I downloaded the White Paper within
minutes of it going online thanks to tweets
@carolineroche
Wordle: http://www.wordle.net Tagxedo: http://www.tagxedo.com/
To analyse the content of a website To analyse a speech To analyse an essay, picking out the main themes
To use as shelf ends, showing Dewey To use as a poster
http://animoto.com Create a short free video, or get a free educational account for slightly longer ones
Promote author events, visits, books – whatever you choose
Animoto on school libraries
• Click on Create, once on the website, and then choose Short video, which are the free ones
Use this button to import pictures from your computer
Put your pictures in these boxes, in the order in which you want them. You can only have 15 pictures and text.
Use this tab to add music, your own or Animoto’s preselected range
Use this tab to finalise your Animoto. Effects are added by Animoto, and can’t be changed
http://vodpod.com Use this for collecting videos and sharing
them on your blog Needs YouTube to be enabled You can belong to a community so you are
informed when others collect a video Easy to embed on blogs – all instructions
are on Vodpod Use book trailers to enthuse students about
upcoming books http://youtu.be/JF5wu8TLOaU
Go to http://storybird.com Either sign in to create your own stories and
save them, or you can create a story right away
Simple, easy and quick to use. Great for encouraging creative writing
http://storybird.com/books/an-unexpected-party/?token=nwg3nv
Here’s one I made earlier …
http://www.heromachine.com/
This needs to be supervised, but use it to end a lesson where students have been creating their own superhero stories
Then ask them to create a character on Heromachine to illustrate their story
http://piclits.com Drag and drop words on to photos to create
poems Sign in to free account if you want to save Can be use for starters or plenaries on IWB Can embed clickable preview, but whole
thing must be viewed on website
Getting boys to read: http://bookzone4boys.blogspot.com/
Fun site with several authors: http://www.trappedbymonsters.com/
Comics in the Classroom: http://comicsintheclassroom.net/
Children’s literacy and comics research: http://www.physorg.com/news176648788.html
Poetry for children: http://www.poetryarchive.org/childrensarchive/home.do
Library Advocacy: http://heartoftheschool.edublogs.org