iPrimary.co.uk | ICT Tutorials for Teachers

iPrimary.co.uk | ICT Tutorials for Teachers
11/6/09 – “Tutorials. The following video tutorials cover software and hardware that can be used within the classroom to improve teaching and learning, or can be used to support every day administration tasks. Use the search box on the right to find a specific tutorial.

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Welcome to the Web: A beginner’s guide.

Welcome to the Web: A beginner’s guide.
11/6/09 – “Thank you for visiting ‘Welcome to the Web’. By working your way through this web site and taking part in the exciting challenges and activities, you will learn all about the Internet. Good luck!”

This is very well put together, and a great starting point for introducing [...]

Wallwisher.com :: Words that stick

Wallwisher.com :: Words that stick
11/6/09 – This is a fantastic idea for collaborating. “Wallwisher is an online notice board maker…! …it is ideal for making announcements, wishing people, keeping notes, and anything you can do with Post-its”.

Lee County Schools » SmartBoard

Lee County Schools » SmartBoard
29/3/09 – Beginner’s guide to using a Smartboard. Packed with ideas and resources, there is definitely something new for all but the most advanced users.

EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing

EtherPad: Realtime Collaborative Text Editing
17/3/09 – Up to 8 users can collaborate on a document in real time. This free-to-use website could be fantastic for shared writing, brainstorming or ICT Club.

BBC Dance Mat Typing Tutor

BBC Dance Mat Typing Tutor
1/11/08 – This looks like a fantastic way to develop typing skills; very child-friendly.

SnapPages online webpage creation

SnapPages
21/9/08 – Free, online webpage creation, looks nifty.

Learn some basic skills for your SmartBoard

Learn some basic skills for your SmartBoard
25/8/08 – How to make a magic box, quiz or fill in the gaps activity.

delizzy – del.icio.us Bookmarks Search Engine

delizzy – del.icio.us Bookmarks Search Engine
24/8/08 – This seems to be very good! It creates a Google custom search of your del.icio.us bookmarks and, crucially, all the sites you’ve bookmarked.

100 Awesome, Free Web Tools for Elementary Teachers

100 Awesome, Free Web Tools for Elementary Teachers | Smart Teaching
24/8/08 – Great, fairly comprehensive, list of sites. Well worth a look, despite the American bias.

Highly Useful YouTube / Multimedia Tips

20/8/08 – from the Lifehacker site, click YouTube Hacks to access.
Simply put, this guide assists you in:

Downloading YouTube videos
Watching YouTube videos on a TV screen
Creating podcasts using YouTube RSS update feeds
Recording audio from videos
[best of all] pasting videos together to create your own compilation

Great stuff!

PowerPoint to Flash converter

PowerPoint to Flash converter
29/6/08 – “Freeware PowerPoint plug-in iSpring converts your PowerPoint presentation to an interactive Flash video with the click of a button. Not only is iSpring a great way to make your PowerPoint presentation more portable (not everyone has PowerPoint, after all), but an exported movie even preserves all of your slide [...]

Coventry Learning Gateway: Simple Maths ITPs

Coventry Learning Gateway: Gordons – ICT – Simple Maths ITPs
28/6/08 – Links to dozens of maths ICT resources on this great site.

Branching – Databases or Keys

Branching – Databases or Keys
26/6/08 – A range of decent resources and planning for branching databases / keys (used in the Year 4 habitats module) from Wales Grid for Learning.

Cambridgeshire Gallery of Pupils’ Work for Assessment

Cambridgeshire Gallery of Pupils’ Work for Assessment
22/6/08 – Great tool for assessing work. Search by level of attainment, QCA module, National Curriculum strand, cross-curricular link, keystage or year group.

Progressions in ICT Capability Map

Progressions in ICT Capability Map
22/6/08 – ICT Skills mapping from Cambridge LA

Create multimedia responses to poetry

The BBC Blast Poetry site is a great way of respoinding to some classic poems and using multimedia tools.  Suitable for older KS2 children, the site can be used to add a range of clips and text to spoken poems by well-known poets.

Advanced searching using Google

Makeuseof.com: Search like a God! – This article will have you plumbing and trawling the hidden depths of the internet to find exactly what you want and, more importantly, omitting what you don’t want.

Digital Story Maker

Digital Story Maker
31/5/08 – “StoryMaker is a simple tool for creating digital stories. Using audio, pictures and text you can create storyboards, slideshows and much much more.”

Mr Men World

Mr Men World
1/5/08 – Great for character descriptions, biographies and branching databases.

Play How Fast Can You Type the Alphabet?

Play How Fast Can You Type the Alphabet?
20/4/08 – Good for improving typing speed and for embedding knowledge of where keys are.

Wetpaint Please Touch – Create Your Own Masterpiece!

Wetpaint Please Touch – Create Your Own Masterpiece!
20/4/08 – Great site for messing around with virtual paint and colour. I particualrly like the Jackson Pollock brush.

DIDA Pupils ICT Skills Gym

DIDA Pupils ICT Skills Gym
19/4/08 – Onscreen tutorials on most aspects of ICT curriculum – very clear and easy to follow. Potentially suitable for advanced Y4+ or even as a refresher for teachers (it doesn’t patronise).

BBC – England – Webcams

BBC – England – Webcams
18/4/08 – Find webcams all round the UK
tags: ICT, geography, Resources

Primary ICT : Primary ICT Curriculum Support : Scheme of Work

Primary ICT : Primary ICT Curriculum Support : Scheme of Work
18/4/08 – Expanded QCA scheme with links and resources.
tags: ICT, Planning, Resources