Useful sites (weekly)

Best things about the Barnes and Noble Nook eBook Reader « Moving at the Speed of Creativity A post about the Barnes and Noble eBook reader – giving the current lowdown on the Nook. Your Free Online Video Editor | JayCut Jaycut is a very good online video editing interface. Import photos, audio, video, and make a [...]

Imagecodr – Attributing your CC Flickr images

My colleague Tania Sheko sent me a useful link this week. It was for a tool called ImageCodr. At the moment it only works with Flickr images but it is a great start. I have been in Year 7 classes over the past few weeks. I have been showing them some of the ways they [...]

Navify – Searching Wikipedia, Flickr and YouTube

My colleague Tania found this tool via the Free technology for teachers blog. I had seen Nibipedia, but Navify was a new tool for me to look at. It is a mash-up of Wikipedia, Flickr, and YouTube. We all know that many of our students use Wikipedia,which may be developing into the world’s most extensive encyclopedias, as people continue to build on [...]

Back to school – Some fun with images

School is back and after a curriculum day yesterday we are right back into the classroom work today. I have been looking at some new image tools. I have found a few simple little tools that allow you (or your students) to find or have a bit of fun with. 1. Stretch your face is a [...]

Finding digital images

This week I have been talking to classes about the crime genre. I have also worked on creating some on-line resources for the staff and students for this and helping another staff member illustrate a digital book on some English poetry/ballads. I have been looking for pictures/images to add to the resource and so have [...]