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"Laptop and microphone Joe Dale is an independent consultant working with CILT, Links into Languages, The British Council and the BBC. He is host of the TES MFL forum, former SSAT Languages Lead Practitioner and is a regular conference speaker. Joe has been podcasting since 2006, you can read more in his blog Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom. Creating and listening to podcasts offers many learning opportunities for pupils both in and out of the classroom. The cyclical process promotes speaking, listening and writing skills and can improve pronunciation, confidence and engagement. Scripting, recording and editing caters to a range of learning styles, facilitates peer assessment, pupil voice and collaborative project-based learning. Pupils are able to access higher order thinking skills, foster creativity, revise lesson content and deepen their understanding as a result. Podcasting also allows pupils to publish professional sounding audio inexpensively to a real audience, giving them a sense of ownership and a more relevant and meaningful purpose to their work. Showcasing pupils' work in this way can forge links with the wider community and celebrate achievement too. Downloading podcasts on to a computer or mobile device lets learners review their learning at their own pace at a time which suits them wherever they may be and as many times as they want. Providing a transcript makes the content even more accessible and enables further personalised and distance learning to take place."

If you are in education and you don't know how some programs works or what it is, then please watch these videos. It will amaze you just how much incredible educational content there is and ANYONE with a computer can access it.

Martin Burrett 12 Dec 11 02:14:03A very useful QR code site where you can type a 100 character message which is read out with a voice synthesiser when the code is scanned. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

Martin Burrett 21 Dec 11 12:55:12 One of a host of Etherpad inspired collaborative notepads, but with a few little extra features, like being able to make a link to a read only page. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

A wonderfully simple site for writing and publishing books online. Make chapters and save your work as draft until you are ready to publish. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

Martin Burrett 27 Aug 11 03:15:09A great countdown timer tool. Enter the date, time and title. The site generates a link for you to share or bookmark. So you can turn your browser off and come back to it, unlike many similar tools. Good for setting homework & essay deadlines. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

Martin Burrett 10 Sep 11 02:10:59A great site full of free fonts for commercial use. Great for publishing children's work. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/ICT+%26+Web+Tools

"Mouse Mischief integrates into Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 and Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007, enabling you insert questions, polls, and drawing activity slides into your lessons. Students can actively participate in these lessons by using their own mice to click, circle, cross out or draw answers on the screen. "

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Here is a list of some of the best Google tools that you need to be aware of. Every tool is explained in an easy step by step tutorial and whenever possible a video illustration is attached. Feel free to share these links with your friends and colleagues:

"Pivot Stickfigure Animator is a unique software, that allows you to create stick figure animations easily and without any artistic skills. You can move the sections of the sick figure and easily create a chain of animation frames that can be previewed as you go. You can use more than one stick-figure in the animation, and even create your own stick figures using an easy to use visual editor that lets you assemble objects out of lines and circles. In addition, you can optionally set animation size, speed and more. The result can be saved as animated GIF file. Fun and easy to use, surprisingly well featured."