Using the Wii in the Classroom

This is a presentation the children of Clonlisk NS, their teacher and myself made to share our collaborative effort to use a Wii Game, namely African Safari, as a context for learning.

Using QR Codes

An example of learner-directed storytelling using QR codes by Julian Woods (@ideas_factory on Twitter).
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Using Twitter in the Classroom

Another interesting presentation from the very talented and inspiring @tombarrett   and his fellow collaborators, This one shows how Twitter could be used effectively in the classroom.

http://www.ideastoinspire.co.uk/twitter.htm

The iPad

Top 100 Web 2.0 Tools 2009

A Visualiser in the Classroom

I personally think a visualiser is a great addition to any classroom especially if one is attached to an  IWB. When connected to your whiteboard / projector it lets one  show projects, art work, artefacts, extract from a book ,illustrations (the list is endless)  to the whole class using the large screen display in your room. Let’s let Danny show us its uses.

Visualiser Demo

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Nintendo DS

The children used Wordle to illustrate how they felt about using the Nintendo DS during their Wednesday Math Class.

ActivInspire for all IWBs

ActiveInspire  1.2 is now available to download for free  from the Promethean  Website. You  can use ActivInspire even if you have another brand of interactive whiteboard, or you don’t have a whiteboard at all.

Existng ActivInspire Users please note a  ’Patch’ also available  to upgrade to version 1.2.   The easiest way to do this is to open  your ActivInspire dashboard  by selecting View>Dashboard-Configure-Check for Updates.

Summer Course 09

By Learning you will Teach.

Wordle

Wordle
Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, save them to the Wordle gallery take an image of them with your Smart,/Promethean/Ebeam etc.. camera and share them with your class. Remember what we did with our “Sneachta” poem. Why not try it at home http://www.wordle.net/