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Discover an endless library of free books, picture books, & poetry or use simple tools to create books in minutes. Storybird is a creative community where readers & writers celebrate storytelling.

I like this site and the beautiful art work there.

Storybird is one of my favorites.

My maths is a great resource to teach numeracy for the kids. It is a subscription website for schools, and it has lessons, worksheets, games, homework. Everything you need to teach Numeracy using an ICT tool.

mymaths is an excellent site... I used it for 6 years in my previous schools and it was used from Y1 to Y13 it is amazing for lessons but especially for homework and each cohort was followed through Primary and Secondary - great assessment tool too.

Great tool to be in course of education ntws, programs, reports etc.

I am interested in learning more about flipped classrooms in elementary. This is very helpful!

I didn't quite understand the tool - but I have now an account and I found many interesting articles related to the topics that I am interested in.

Excellent website with video tutorials for using useful tech tools in the classroom. Great for those who lack confidence :-)

Teaching is changing. It is no longer simply about passing on knowledge to the next generation. Teachers in the 21st century, in all educational sectors, have to cope with an ever-changing cultural and technological environment. Teaching is now a design science. Like other design professionals - architects, engineers, town planners, programmers - teachers have to work out creative and evidence-based ways of improving what they do. But teaching is not treated as a design profession. Every day, teachers design and test new ways of teaching, using learning technology to help their learners. But their discoveries remain local. By representing and communicating their best ideas as structured pedagogical patterns, teachers could develop this vital professional knowledge collectively. Teacher professional development has not embedded in the teacher's everyday role the idea that they could discover something worth communicating to other teachers, or build on each others' ideas. Could the culture change? From this unique perspective on the nature of teaching, Diana Laurillard argues that a 21st century education system needs teachers who work collaboratively to design effective and innovative teaching.

In my opinion the most important thing is -given teaching will be treated as a collective design science- learning about how to apply new ways of teaching on our individual children. The newest would probably not always be the best and what worked in other schools elsewhere might not work in your own school. So let´s also stress how to individualize collective knowledge again and break it down to everyday usable teaching aid that we can evaluate.

I totally agree with your opinion about education, specially when you talk about collaborative work among teachers to help our students build knowledge .THank you

some useful tools for getting started.

Currently learning about different continents with my children and will definitely be using this tool.

This is a tool I used to play in the classroom, there are thousands of quizes created but the best of all it's that i can create my own, even recycling other's questions. It is a nice way to promote competition among students, and to motivate them to seld evaluate their knowledge.

I learned about this during the shut down. I created some times table quizzes and it was great because you can ask questions in a variety of ways. Audio Questions, pictures or written. Great tool, and the self marking and statistics provided are very helpful.

In the last few years, browser-based presentation tools like Google Slides and Visme have been slowly, but surely, winning over users who once thought PowerPoint was the best software for creating beautiful slide decks. Read more at http://blog.visme.co/google-slides-versus-visme-comparison/#0FtKtSw0GlJ3g0dQ.99

Teach the world. Use mysimpleshow in the classroom with your students or contribute to open educational resources. Introduce, summarize, and explain topics worth sharing.

I'm going to try this. Usually, for online learning I will make my own presentation and then do a screen recording on the Mac which records your voice at the same time. A more fun, interactive presentation may help the students pay closer attention.

Thanks for sharing. I've always thought that kind of video is very visually appealing for students. I'll definitely explore MySimpleShow! It could be used to explain difficult topics in a simple way.

As a fan and enthusiastic user of IT in classes, I have just started a course: ICT in Primary Education: Transforming children's learning across the curriculum. It is a free course at www.coursera.org I will start recording some tools available online. Take a look at them and free your imagination to use them in your lessons.

Hello! I am glad to be here. I just have known this free course so I immediately enrolled. I am happy that I will be learning a lot especially in dealing with the 21st century learners. I need to enhance my skills in learning when and how to use and integrate ICT in the teaching-learning process!

Oh this is great!

"Πρόσθετα, το εκπαιδευτικό βιβλίο «Ψάχνοντας στην Πυθωνία» αποτελεί ένα πολύπλευρο εργαλείο εκπαίδευσης για γονείς, νηπιαγωγούς, δασκάλους, πληροφορικούς, θεατρολόγους, ειδικούς παιδαγωγούς, αλλά και λογοθεραπευτές. Για περισσότερες πληροφορίες σχετικά με τον τρόπο εργασίας του εκπαιδευτικού βιβλίου, μπορείτε να επικοινωνείτε με την κ. Αριάδνη Δάντε στα emails: ariadnidante@gmail.com, chipoupolis@gmail.com"

ZooBurst is a digital storytelling tool that lets anyone easily create his or her own 3D pop-up books. ZooBurst books "live" online and can be experienced on your desktop or laptop computer, or on your iPad via the free ZooBurst mobile app. Authors can arrange characters and props within a 3D world that can be customized using uploaded artwork or items found in a built-in database of over 10,000 free images and materials.

You can crop a video, add your voice, embed quizzes and upload your video. This is a great tool to edit any video you locate online. Easy to use as well.

I stopped to read the provided key points about screen time for kids together with its corresponding article because, it has been always a topic in my mind when friends share their disapproval about TV watching. I always back up my thoughts by considering that the problem is not the amount of screen they have but, the purpse for its use. Unfortunately, I believe many parents use TV or simile, as baby sitters, this I consider negative. While reading these articlaes, my ideas became clearer and on paper! Technology, many times neglected by old-fashioned teaching teachers, is often considered in the same way and, I truly believe that it must be also considered something positive, enhancing and motivating if used wisely.

Besides all the online applications, programs, tools and games .. screen time is equally important for kids. The article also rejects the myths that parents and teachers have in minds regarding screen time. This perspective can be changed in to positivity by by proper monitoring of kids during screen time.

Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more. Khan Academy is a nonprofit with the mission of providing a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.

It is used in our school!

You might be interested reading Evaluating the Khan Academy at http://blogs.worldbank.org/edutech/evaluating-khan-academy?cid=EXT_TWBN_D_EXT giving a summary and reference to the Research on the Use of Khan Academy in Schools report.

This is a great website which explores the amazing range of digital tools that are available to tell a story. Have a look! I am sure you will find something new you can use in the classroom to encourage children to tell stories.

Thank you for sharing! I'm interested in digital storytelling so it's a very good resource for me.

Teachers can use this tool to organize an activity in groups getting your goals in teaching-learning with the digital board, teamwork and creativity. Here you are a website in order to make it without cost and you have my link of my own webquest The chocolate world with the characters of the Charlie's factory film . This webquest was for students with 6 years old. You can use characters, links, videos, instructions .... Enjoy it!! http://www.phpwebquest.org/catala/webquest/soporte_tablon_w.php?id_actividad=7094&id_pagina=5

Hi I liked the idea... I tried peneing it it's in spanish. There is an option to translate the page but it's not translated. Please help

Wonderful idea! I have bookmarked the page!