Top 20 Websites No Teacher Should Start the 2010-2011 Year Without

Top 20 Websites No Teacher Should Start the 2010-2011 Year Without 01/09/2010 – Ronseal

Google Forms: how to create a quiz or a test that automatically grades itself in Google Docs–Internet–Tools & Tips for Multimedia Designers–Planet of the Web

Google Forms: how to create a quiz or a test that automatically grades itself in Google Docs–Internet–Tools & Tips for Multimedia Designers–Planet of the Web 20/06/2010 – goes with Tammy Worcester’s site. Read this first, if you want to know how to make your own.

Google Docs Self Check Quizzes

Google Docs Self Check Quizzes 20/06/2010 – Useful for assessment, more advanced pupils could create their own – with guidance. On Tammy Worcester’s site – one of many handy tech tips.

Tagxedo – Tag Cloud with Styles

Tagxedo – Tag Cloud with Styles 09/05/2010 – “Tagxedo turns words — famous speeches, news articles, slogans and themes, even your love letters — into a visually stunning tag cloud, words individually sized appropriately to highlight the frequencies of occurrence within the body of text.”

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.

E.gg Timer – simple online countdown timer

E.gg Timer – simple online countdown timer 15/3/09 – Can be configured to any time you want. Fills the screen width – but not height – with text and is clean / distraction-free.

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.

Google IMAGIZER

Google IMAGIZER 24/7/08 – Uses Google Images but it strips out the thumbnails and displays the full-sized picture, giving you a better idea of its usefulness.

TubeZoid – Download videos from Youtube, Teachertube and more…

TubeZoid – Download videos from Youtube, Teachertube and more… 13/7/08 – Download as .flv files which can be inserted into Smart Notebook documents or Promethean Flipcharts.

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 [...]

Top 100 Online Tools for Learning

Top 100 Online Tools for Learning 27/4/08 – Most are very familiar but it’s good to have the list in one place. Some of these might be useful ideas for incorporation into staff inset.

TripleMe – the power of Google, Yahoo, MSN Live in One

TripleMe – the power of Google, Yahoo, MSN Live in One 25/4/08 – Seems to work quite well and allows user to remove duplicate results.

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.

Online countdown clock

Online countdown clock 19/4/08 – Counts down for 30 seconds and plays the famous music.

Docstoc.com – upload, share and embed your documents

Docstoc.com – free legal forms and business templates tags: ict.tools 6/4/08 – Upload documents so that they can be embedded in your website or blog.

Wikispaces guide for teachers

Wikispaces guide for teachers tags: ict.clubs, ict.tools 6/4/08 – Information on setting up and creating a wiki for your class or school, including individual usernames and password.

Lesson Plans, ICT Tools, German, Thinking Skills and Assembly

Quick Lessons from PedagoNet tags: all.subjects, planning 9/3/08 – Lesson plans to go for a range of subjects. – post by teachinglinks htm2pdf | convert your html to pdfs tags: ict.tools 9/3/08 – Ronseal: convert web pages (including flash and URLs) to a PDF file. – post by teachinglinks Literacy Center Education Network – Play [...]

Free Fonts, Onelook Reverse Dictionary

A Font Category Annotated tags: freebies.fonts 1/3/08 “Over 9,000 free font downloads for the everyday geek!” – post by teachinglinks Over 9,000 free font downloads for the everyday geek! OneLook Reverse Dictionary tags: english, english.word.level, reference, resources

Rememble, MFL, Newspaper Template, Truancy Fact

Rememble Annotated tags: ict, ict.tools, resources Rememble is a ‘washing line’ for your digital bits and pieces. Thread together texts, photos,videos, sounds, scribbles, scans,notes, tweets… so they’re not drifting in a digital wasteland. The Language Investigator Annotated tags: languages, resources This site is aimed at Primary School teachers who are interested introducinga multilingual dimension into [...]

Discover From Your Favorite Topic or Web Page: blog

Discover From Your Favorite Topic or Web Page: blog Filed in: test

MindMeister – think together

MindMeister – think together – create, collaborate on and share mind maps.

Typetester – Compare and choose fonts for the screen

Typetester – Compare fonts for the screen – as it says!

Zamzar – Free online file conversion

Zamzar – Free online file conversion – Convert anything to anything else!

doiop.com

doiop.com – Shorten long URLs using your choice of keyword, which will never expire. Dead good!