Purposeful Learning Technologies

A fun little latin motto generator

 APPitic is a directory of apps a collection of 1,300 + apps for learning.for education by Apple Distinguished Educators (ADEs) These apps have been tested in a variety of different grade levels, instructional strategies and classroom settings

What it is: Boy's Life Magazine is a great place to reach those boys in your class that are reluctant readers or writers.  On the Boy's Life site, you will find a Comic Creator where students can create a comic strip.  The Comic Creator is easy to use, offering enough tools for boys to really customize their comics but not SO many that they get lost in the forever search of pictures.  A great balance! How to integrate Comic Creator into the classroom: The Boy's Life Comic Creator is a great little tool to help your boys connect with writing and story telling in a way that they enjoy and understand.  The tool is simple enough to use as a writing station/center on classroom computers.  The comic does need to be created in one sitting, there is no way to save and come back to a comic later.  Completed comics can be printed off and shared.

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When it Comes to Technology, Teachers Need as Much Scaffolding as Students 

My favourite QR Code generator- simple to use!

web 2 tools that provide a URL for publishing sharing etc

Listing of apps driven by learning outcomes e.g.  'I want my students to...'

A great blog entry sharing apps for use on the iPad for various uses - worth a look!

This looks like a pretty cool app for the iPhone/iPod touch/iPad which will allow you to record student voices and the app will sync a sock puppet with the recording - you can then upload to youtube. Check it out...

Fantastic tool to use to orientate you to content before you begin researchingAlso useful for students with learning difficulties

iPad App Coffee Chats, author and digital learning consultant Wesley Fryer shares iPad applications useful for business productivity, eReading, multimedia sharing, and other purposes. These FREE coffee chats are shared from 6:30 pm to 7:30 pm CST

a short video to demonstrate how overdrive works and how simple the borrowing/download process is.

Information about copyright in simple to understand language.

Interesting read- One teacher learned the hard way that just bringing iPads into the classroom won't truly change things-challenges teachers to redefine your practice.

Great site- links to 100 video sites worth bookmarking

I strongly recommend this read to all LT's - if this hasn't yet been a discussion at your school - I am sure it will be some time in the future. Recommend all primary and secondary staff to read this !

An interesting post on the effective use of SMART Boards that challenges the cynics

"the museum of science, art and human perception" A great site to engage kids in science

Allows you to draw and add other notes etc to maps. Great way to enhance map based learning tasks such as Maths trails or HSIE trails.