21 Good links from Twitter

Here follows 21 useful links I posted on Twitter :

1. 21st Century Skills website, very comprehensive with great links and discussions http://snipr.com/kg3p5
2. Love this T-shirt website,such an innovative idea to use things from within films rather than just the cover poster: http://short.to/gi5i
3. Looks like this could be an interesting book on teaching History: Constructing History 11-19, http://is.gd/16lQz
4. Create tension with exam groups using video clips http://short.to/gi54
5. Book: 100 Ideas for Essential Teaching Skills http://is.gd/16lu8
6. Book: Innovate with ICT http://short.to/gitf
7. Download resources for Assessment for Learning http://is.gd/16lzK
8. New Fronter tutorial: How to Embed Video or Learning Games, http://is.gd/16jnt
9. Handheld Learning conference 5-7th October London: http://snipr.com/kg2c7 . Ok, I'm there.
10. New Fronter tutorial: How to upload resources and link them to text http://snipr.com/kg1nl
11. Very comprehensive list of tools to boost your Twitter following indeed (via @TheAffiliateGuy) http://ow.ly/aaXj
12. Open Source Schools 2009 Unconference (BECTA supported). Looks very interesting. http://snipr.com/kg1ts
13. Futurelab conference, 8 October 2009, Seen and Heard: Young people creating digital media http://is.gd/16l0V . Penciled into calendar : ) .
14. The 16th International Conference of the Association for Learning Technology, Manchester September 2009: http://snipr.com/kg22d
15. Really looking forward to SHP 2009 #education #shp.We have uploaded our past workshops here http://short.to/ghpi
16. How to embed Flash in ActiveStudio 3: http://short.to/ghpg
17. Mobile learning technology #education . Create quizzes for for mobile phones: http://snipr.com/kfq98
18. MFL resource for french grammar: http://is.gd/16aVR
19. The evolution of WEB 1.0 and WEB 2.0. Very cool: http://is.gd/16aSd
20. Create a Welcome Page in Fronter: http://www.innovativeict.net/fronter-learning-platform
21. Interesting. 10 Ways to increase your Twitter followers http://tinyurl.com/cs6nkv

5 Great Presentation Tools

How often do you use PowerPoint in your lessons? How do you make presentations useful without information overload... Here follows a brief list of tools that I use regularly to make my messages stick (a little bit longer...).

ZohoShow: create the presentation on-line or upload a PowerPoint file from your local computer. The site gives you a range of tools to make the presentation sleek and professional. A Great tool indeed.

ToonDoo.com: Create graphics and cartoon strips to highlight a key issue or significant point see French Revolution for an example

PicLens plug-in for PowerPoint 2007: This is a real gem and transforms your PowerPoint 2007 slide shows to powerful and animated presentations.

Rich Chart Live: Although this is more complex and a bit technical, you will get used to this tool quickly after a few attempts. I like this flash-generated chart tool as it makes somewhat dull looking statistics look great!


Glogster: Glogster is in many respects a simple 'poster' tool, but you can create effective, purposeful displays with students or to use within your own presentations as they can be stored online and include music, videos and hyperlinks. Glogster is ridiculously easy to use and will benefit your presentations well particularly when it comes to emphasizing key issues or give concrete examples of a concept or idea. See what you think.

ICT in the MFL classroom

Just came across an excellent blog by Joe Dale. It may be geared towards the teaching of Modern Foreign Languages but much of his content and ideas are easily transferable to other subjects. There are a several good ideas for using podcasting which I particularly liked : ) . This blog is certainly worth subscribing to...

Great websites

Great Websites

Most people probably have stacks of websites listed in their Favorites/Bookmarks. How often do you use them? In fact, how many websites do you actually visit regularly? Yahoo, Google, Youtube, Windows Live, Facebook and Wikipedia are amongst the few sites that gain top hits every day according to Alexa.com. The websites you find on this page are the ones we use regularly and find particularly interesting and have helped us to become better classroom practitioners.

We hope you find them useful!

Johannes Ahrenfelt & Neal Watkin

Presentation Zen

Tech Crunch

The Education Forum

I Used to Believe

Doug Belshaw's Blog

Terry Haydn - Teacher Training

Dragonfly Training