ABC ICT Tools

"A Web Whiteboard is touch-friendly whiteboard app that lets you use your computer, tablet or smartphone to easily draw sketches, collaborate with others and share them with the world. Works on all modern browsers, no installation needed."

Sharendipity is a web based creativity suite where anyone can build and deploy engaging and interactive web applications.

Type in a search term and your results come back coded by readability level The name "Twurdy" comes from a play on words with the question "Too Wordy?". The philosophy Everyone has different reading abilities. Some people searching the web are university professors and others are 5 year old children. Twurdy has been created to provide people with access to search results that suit their own readability level. What does it do? Twurdy uses text analysis software to "read" each page before it is displayed in the results. Then Twurdy gives each page a readability level. Twurdy then shows the readability level of the page along with a color coded system to help users determine how easy the page will be to understand.

A revolutionary platform for virtual building. This is LEGO Digital Designer. The program that lets you build with LEGO bricks on your computer.

You might find it useful for a class, to build their own 3D virtual platforms.

Screencasting  is a better and great way to showcase a procedure, to teach,demonstrate a service or to create video tutorials without having to write a content or an article. Screencasting tools are available both as desktop applications (Free and commercial) and web-based services. The good news is that there are a growing number of screencasting tools that are completely free to use; some do not even require a registration to let you get started.

A wealth of free resources that can help you jazz up those tired old (or new) lesson slides and presentations.

Free online photo editing

Flickr is a fantastic site for sharing photographs with others, and as such it's also a brilliant resource for finding and using photographs to use in a lesson.

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 is from the same people who produced Phrasr. It lets you use flickr photos to make picture books which you can publish or share. A nice tool for literacy.

online dictionary with video explanations

"our school subcription. Click here and then "passwords" to log in to get this password."

asks you to type a phrase and the site will pull in words from Flickr to match each word and then animates them in sequence. You can save them, and link to old ones via the archive. Here's an example.

"a rich source of information on a enormous number of creatures."

draws from nearly a thousand photos on flickr tagged with "5cardflickr"You are dealt 5 random photos from Flickr and you choose one to add to your story. You then repeat this 4 more times until you have 5 photos that you can then use to tell a story.

is a quick way of turning a poem, sentence or chunk of random text into a sequence of Flickr photographs.