This is a great post on how to guide students to write powerful comments. Something that I think we should start concentrating on now that we have the blogging thing up and running.
Create a 'wild self' by choosing from different options. A great tool for story writing or even to create an unusual avatar for blogs. Kids love this website.
This is a fantastic free movie making website. The best feature is text to speech, where whatever you type the characters will say. You can also change background, character appearance, characters expressions, voice accent and gender, and camera angles. Set up one account then all the kids can log in with the one username and password.
Several weeks ago I reviewed one of the most powerful iPad app sites on the web. If you missed the posting be sure to give this prior post a visit. The website iEar is an amazing site based on both teacher reviews and contributions. You may just want to become a member of iEar today!
. You may wish to start with iPad Apps and its listing of over 500 apps, descriptions, reviews, and even apps to get started with. Or, instead, begin with the searchable data base or take a look at their cool list of projection apps.
I especially like the Creativity Apps, Teacher Tools Apps and the VGA Output Apps. You also may wish to check out Managing a Classroom Set of iPads and This is what I did… (which is a selection of the authors’ reflections and practical applications.
Skill based learning, but could be useful if doing differentiated rotations in maths lesson and want to target a particular skill that the students may need to help in their understanding/solving of an extended problem.