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Used this last year. will intro to Grade 4-6 this semester

Diigo and Prezi I think that diigo is wonderful. It is such a good way to organise your bookmarks. It's also a great way to collaborate on resources. I often find great websites that my colleagues may find useful, though I'm never quite sure if they are worthy of clogging their inboxes. With diigo I can just add to a group list and then everyone can access them. Getting something like that up and running is definitely a goal for next year. The head librarian at my school is also very excited about diigo and I have drawn her a very messy diagram of how diigo groups can work. In order to tick two things of my list I thought I would use prezi to put together a clear explanation of diigo.

The Around the World with 80 Schools project has grown tremendously over the last year. It has grown so fast that it was becoming very time consuming to manually enter contact information for a group email list, invited participants manually to a wiki, add their location on a Google Map, and maintain a Google form/spreadsheet with the participants' contact information.

This page allows you to upload hundreds (or thousands) of photos to use used in the mosaic. Just enter your email address, tell us the shape of mosaic you want (square, horizontal, vertical) and the main photo you want us to use for the mosaic, select as many photos as you want from your computer (preferably more than 100) and we do the rest. If page does not load within 10 seconds, click the REFRESH button I did this years ago, after the George Bush/Iraq soldier one came out, looked great!

Ihad been looking forward to Edmodo's arrival since I first found out about it earlier this year, when I was researching for the Languages ICT Outlook. Since its launch earlier this month, happily coinciding with the beginning of term for us, my students and I have been exploring Edmodo as a means of teacher-student communication.

Jeff again! The 2009-2010 school year ended for me early today and I'm just wrapping up a few loose ends before I head into vacation mode for the summer. I did want to release the Free PDF of the Web-Based Portfolio series I've been working on for the past couple of months. I've taken the four blog posts and put them into this PDF that you can download and use if you would like.

Perhaps my favourite classroom tool of the past year is My StoryMaker from the Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh. It's great fun and has never failed to entertain me or my students - always the sign of a good activity. Most importantly, it really gets students thinking about language and focuses them on producing creative, quality work.

Only one month into the new school year and almost every middle school student has their own blog hosted at ISB (plus all of our grade 5s, and quite a few high school students)! Thanks to our fantastic middle school Humanities and Modern Language teachers, who spent their class time helping students create their own blog, we are off and running in record time!

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Burn a weebly to dvd at end of year?!

A few years ago, when I was studying English, I thought to myself: "Wouldn't it be great if there was a website focused solely on the English tenses?". The subject of English Tenses is a vast and difficult one, so surely it deserves its own special place on the Internet! This is how this website was born.

Some cute eg of kids it work in early years.

For those vacation assignments!! Do you have students who take family vacations or have special opportunities to travel during the school year? What sort of assignments do you require them to do while away? Do they journal their adventures and gather brochures to report back to the class?

In the past, my students have used Photostory3 to show and talk about their learning as a starting point for their Student Led Conference with their parents. I'm now teaching in a mac school so Photostory3 was not an option. After considering iMovie (and all of it's amazing features) I felt that it had too many features that might be distracting for what I wanted. The ease at which a mac allows you to record your voice, and video using the inbuilt webcam and mic was still going to be the foundation of recording our learning but I still needed to find a suitable platform. A wiki was a consideration and then the brainwave of VoiceThread appeared in my head late one night! The more I considered VoiceThread, the more it's interactive features appealed to me. Using Photostory3 meant a final product. Nothing more added, no room for comment by parents and unless you sent the exported movie file, or embedded it on a wiki, no way for other family members in different parts of the country or in other parts of world, to see it. Using VoiceThread was easy! We've already used it several times this year, so the "tool" and how to use it was already established. Here's the step by step organisation we used to complete a digital protfolio for each student in Room202.

Graet for Dan and co