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31/5/08 - "StoryMaker is a simple tool for creating digital stories. Using audio, pictures and text you can create storyboards, slideshows and much much more."

Brilliantly effective yet simple brainstorming tool for use on the IWB.

20/4/08 - Free, high quality tool for creating magazines. You can also view examples made by other people/groups.

7/10/07 - "online multi user whiteboard, give out your URL & start working together. Sketch, text, share files, upload pictures all in one common shared space... no new tools to learn, nothing to download or install. everyone sees the same screen"

25/3/08 - Glossy look and plenty of features to create your own magazine. As it says "a free tool for teachers and students to make their own web-magazines"

6/1/08 - Loads, clean interface, easy to use.

Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge!

11/6/09 - "Tutorials The following video tutorials cover software and hardware that can be used within the classroom to improve teaching and learning, or can be used to support every day administration tasks. Use the search box on the right to find a specific tutorial. 007 - Video conferencing with FlashMeeting Learn how to use FlashMeeting, a free web-based video conferencing tool intended for education. Open Tutorial Quick play 006 - Using Harvest Sounds to play audio files during dramas and radio shows Find out how to use Harvest Sounds, a piece of software used for playing audio files on the fly. Open Tutorial Quick play 005 - Using SpellingCity.com to support the learning of spellings Find out how to use SpellingCity.com, a free website, to support the learning of spellings. Open Tutorial Quick play 004 - ActivPrimary 3 - A basic introduction Find out the basics of how to use ActivPrimary 3, from Promethean. Open Tutorial Quick play 003 - Adding a soundtrack with Windows Movie Maker Find out how to add music to a video using Windows Movie Maker. Open Tutorial Quick play 002 - Creating word clouds with Wordle Find out how to display word lists in attractive word clouds. Open Tutorial Quick play 001 - How to download movies from Youtube In this tutorial you'll learn how to download movies from Youtube for use at a later date within the classroom."

20/06/2010 - Useful for assessment, more advanced pupils could create their own - with guidance. On Tammy Worcester's site - one of many handy tech tips.

01/09/2010 - Ronseal

15/3/09 - Can be configured to any time you want. Fills the screen width - but not height - with text and is clean / distraction-free.

25/4/08 - Seems to work quite well and allows user to remove duplicate results.

23/4/08 - Yahoo-powered Search Engine that buys two trees for every 1,000 searches. They offset the carbon whilst providing Yahoo search results - not bad at all.

20/4/08 - Good for improving typing speed and for embedding knowledge of where keys are.

19/4/08 - Counts down for 30 seconds and plays the fanous music.

6/4/08 - Information on setting up and creating a wiki for your class or school, including individual usernames and password.

29/6/08 - "Freeware PowerPoint plug-in iSpring converts your PowerPoint presentation to an interactive Flash video with the click of a button. Not only is iSpring a great way to make your PowerPoint presentation more portable (not everyone has PowerPoint, after all), but an exported movie even preserves all of your slide transitions, animations, and hyperlinks."

20/5/08 - Design your own playground. Aimed at KS2 and KS3 children, this DCSF site also solicits users' opinions on playgrounds.

24/8/08 - This seems to be very good! It creates a Google custom search of your del.icio.us bookmarks and, crucially, all the sites you've bookmarked.